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No more //c
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: No more //c
- From: frederick dot page at amb-informatik dot de
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:09:08 +0100
Hi there,
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00109.html says
about the upcoming changes in Cygwin 1.3.3:
Briefly, the problem with using //x to refer to drive x is that it
clashes with Windows' use of // to denote a network share. So a system
called 'x' on your network was previously inaccessible to cygwin.
I'm not sure, whether this new change is necessary at all: to my
understanding, Windows uses the non-standard backslash, a network
share would be noted here as \\Sharename (and *not* //Sharename).
Am I missing something?
Kind regards Frederick
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