From: Adrian Carter <adrian@lidcam.com.au>
To: frederick.page@amb-informatik.de, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: No more //c
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010906201701.00aada50@127.0.0.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFBB335618.4A6FFFF5-ONC1256ABF.00279BC0@11.AM-GRUPPE.DE>
At 12:09 PM 6/09/2001 +0100, frederick.page@amb-informatik.de wrote:
>Hi there,
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00109.html says
>about the upcoming changes in Cygwin 1.3.3:
>
>Briefly, the problem with using //x to refer to drive x is that it
>clashes with Windows' use of // to denote a network share. So a system
>called 'x' on your network was previously inaccessible to cygwin.
Perhaps clashes is being used in a 'looks real bad when seen in a list of
resources that also contains SMB shares'. i.e:
//x/blah
\\blah\x
Kinda confusing... to a 'dummy' it could easily be seen perhaps as a typo.
Im guessin.
Adrian
>I'm not sure, whether this new change is necessary at all: to my
>understanding, Windows uses the non-standard backslash, a network
>share would be noted here as \\Sharename (and *not* //Sharename).
>
>Am I missing something?
>
>Kind regards Frederick
>
>
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2001-09-06 3:09 frederick.page
2001-09-06 3:16 ` Adrian Carter [this message]
2001-09-06 3:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
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