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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com>
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>,
	"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000526211005.E90B5F805@mx1.hotpop.com> (raw)

> >In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and
> >"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the 
> Windows path
> >\\machine\dir\file.

> I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're 
> excluding the
> case of "//"?

That wasn't exactly what I was thinking.  I used three for emphasis, but
meant that one or more initial slashes would be treated as a single initial
slash.

It is the Friday before a long weekend and I might be completely brain-dead,
but I don't remember a special significance to '//' in UNIX.

             reply	other threads:[~2000-05-26 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-26 14:10 Parker, Ron [this message]
     [not found] <200005301721.KAA00107@cygnus.com>
2000-05-30 10:35 ` Chris Faylor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-30 10:21 Parker, Ron
2000-05-29  6:14 Bernard Dautrevaux
2000-05-29  6:07 Bernard Dautrevaux
2000-05-28  8:14 Earnie Boyd
2000-05-28  9:14 ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-29 10:28   ` Andy Hare
2000-05-28  0:17 David Bolen
     [not found] <200005262126.RAA23411@acestes-fe0.ultra.net>
2000-05-27  9:32 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-27  9:44   ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-27 10:15     ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-27 17:07       ` Chris Faylor
     [not found] <200005262150.OAA10858@cygnus.com>
2000-05-26 15:04 ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-27 16:27   ` AJ Reins
2000-05-26 14:51 Parker, Ron
2000-05-26 15:27 ` Bob McGowan
2000-05-26 16:00   ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-26 16:18     ` Bob McGowan
2000-05-26 16:49       ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-27  9:49         ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-28  0:05         ` Robert McGowan
2000-05-28  3:51           ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-05-26 14:27 Parker, Ron
2000-05-26 14:16 Parker, Ron
     [not found] <200005262110.RAA09230@acestes-fe0.ultra.net>
2000-05-26 14:15 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-26 14:42   ` Chris Faylor
2000-05-27 16:19     ` AJ Reins
2000-05-27 16:50       ` Chris Faylor
     [not found] <200005261702.KAA22136@athena.veritas.com>
2000-05-26 10:21 ` Bob McGowan
2000-05-26 10:47   ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-26 10:19 Earnie Boyd
     [not found] <200005261701.NAA11863@acestes-fe0.ultra.net>
2000-05-26 10:10 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-05-26 10:01 Parker, Ron

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