On Jul 30 19:23, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
> " How bad would it be to treat the window's DOMAIN\user as cygwin
> " user@DOMAIN?  Yes, it means string-splicing to rearrange strings when
> " converting between the two forms, rather than just single-character
> " replacement, but it might work.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.  Consider also that modern(*) Windows
> recognizes (prefers?) user@domain as equivalent to domain\user in
> places.

No, no!  It's not the same.  I just wrote about that in my reply
to Eric.  It's FLATDOMAIN\user vs. user@dnsdomain
These are different strings referring to the same domain.


Corinna

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