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Re: mount removes backslashes
- To: johnwu at crt dot com
- Subject: Re: mount removes backslashes
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:49:37 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
From: johnwu@crt.com
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: mount removes backslashes
Date sent: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:53:59 -0500
Actually, I think what you are seeing is the shell removing the
escape characters (\) from the command line before mount
ever sees it.
Try
echo c:\foo\bar\bin
then try
echo c:\\foo\\bar\\bin
Regards,
Doug
>
> Version Beta 20.1 NT 4.0.
> If you mount a directory, the backslashes are removed in the win registry,
> e.g. mount c:\foo\bar\bin /xxx creates the following registry entry:
> c:foobarbin.
>
>
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