From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4942 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2006 09:57:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 4933 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2006 09:57:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from Unknown (HELO pwrimns1) (203.14.32.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:57:05 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.11.169]) by pwrimns1 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:56:13 +1000 Message-ID: <44CF2563.5020302@hotmail.com.INVALID> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:57:00 -0000 From: Shaddy Baddah Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames References: <44CD82E3.4070401@hotmail.com.INVALID> <44CD87F6.30308@hotmail.com.INVALID> <20060731102635.GG8152@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20060731102635.GG8152@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-imss-version: 2.041 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:22.44826 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:1 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.0000 0.0000) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 Hi, First, I would like to apologise for all the errors (grammatical, mistype, and dropped wording) in the original email. On 7/31/2006 8:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > These are not valid paths in the DOS namespace. It's an NT native > device name which is mapped to \\.\physicaldrive0 in DOS. See Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. > If you want cygpath to create the correct Windows equivalents, > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC I would love to contribute, unfortunately cannot presently. I will however try to forward a suggestion for the Special Filenames section of the user manual, that flags the names as not being in the same "namespace" as most cygpath -w outputs, if that's ok? > Corinna > [who has that feeling this is an off-topic discussion for cygwin-talk] As in it has become on-topic for cygwin ml, right? I should have re-adjusted when the second part of my email touched on cygpath. Sorry about that. Regards, Shaddy