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<div><h1>finding your files under cygwin</h1>
<div>In Microsoft Windows, most people run programs by pulling down menus or by clicking on icons that have been carefully placed there by install programs. Thus the idea of a <em>path</em> along which to search for programs (such as a browser) is no longer useful in Windows.<p/>
On my computer the browser program <tt>firefox.exe</tt> is in the following directory.<pre> C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox</pre>
But M2 is a Cygwin program, and it lives in a different world, where paths to files don't ever start out with something like <tt>C:</tt>. In that world, firefox's directory is known instead as:<pre> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox</pre>
Conversely, the root directory, known in the Cygwin world as <tt>/</tt>, could be located anywhere in the Windows world. On my machine it is at<pre> C:/cygwin</pre>
Use the <tt>df</tt> command or the <tt>mount</tt> command in a cygwin command shell window to determine that path: it is the file system on which <tt>/</tt> is mounted.</div>
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