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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: David White <dwhite@vixel.com>,
	"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000317120424.00d317e0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38D26374.E3BE2182@vixel.com>

At 11:55 AM 3/17/00, David White wrote:
>Any pointers are appreciated...
>
>I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a shared
>drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC format
>\\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is there a
>special cygnus format for this sort of thing?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>David



Same.  But (forward) slashes are easier to use since it negates the need to 
escape the back slashes.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-03-17 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-17  8:53 David White
2000-03-17  9:26 ` Bob McGowan
2000-03-17  9:33   ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-03-17 12:29 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [this message]
2000-03-18  0:58 William Wylde
2000-03-18  4:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-03-18 16:58   ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-20 14:46 Heribert Dahms

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