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Found by accident: Cygwin tips that still work (most of them)
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Cygwin Tips by zzapper Linux Like Environment for Windows

The tip I found most useful:
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# Use mount to make windows paths appear like unix paths
It describes how to add useful Windows-side folders to your Cygwin install by changing them into POSIX paths, accessible via cd /<shortcutname> but invisible to Windows Explorer, unlike soft symlinks and .lnk files. It eliminates the annoyance to treat the spaces in folder names with backwhacks or enclosing the whole path in quotes.

I still have two aliases that point my Cygwin rxvt (or whatever terminal I happen to be using) to my XP Desktop and My Documents folders, and for practical reasons I intend to keep them in my *aliases file, but I doubt if I'll use them as often with these new mount points in place.

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mount_sysvbfs

MOUNT_SYSVBFS(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					  MOUNT_SYSVBFS(8)

NAME

     mount_sysvbfs -- mount a System V Boot File System

SYNOPSIS

     mount_sysvbfs [-o options] special node

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_sysvbfs command attaches the System V Boot File System on the special device on to the file system tree at point node.  Both
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SEE ALSO

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HISTORY

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