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Re: paths like //usr/local


On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:

the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a unix-environment.
And there are other things too. Perhaps cygwin should ban "\" file separators in paths? After all, most Unix-en don't accept "\" as a file component separator, and "\" is a legal character in filenames on Unix-en..

Cygwin is not Linux.
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Shankar.




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