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Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- From: "Valery Fine" <fine at mail dot cern dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:09:47 +0100
- Organization: CERN/PPE/NA49
- Reply-to: fine at mail dot cern dot ch
Hello GNU-WIN32
I realized that different companies making "UNIX" for windows adopt
diff convention to manage "drive letter", but nobody (if I didn't
miss something) did adopt a "native" Microsoft "UNC" way.
Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution,
namely why they decided to use the notation as follows:
//<drive letter>/<the local path>
but not "native" UNC ( what should I do to access trhe share
"bin" of the computer "D" for example ? )
//./<drive letter>$/<the local path>
where //. just means the "local host"
Likely it is not too late to introduce this one as well ?
With my best regards,
Valery
Dr. Valeri Faine (Valery Fine)
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