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From: Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:39:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 19:31, Ren=C3=A9 Berber via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.co=
m> wrote:
>
> On 4/15/2020 1:10 PM, Paul Moore via Cygwin wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations
> > values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going on there
> > that means that just ignoring the first 3 characters isn't
> > sufficient... ;-)
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats
>
> Look for "DOS device paths"

Thanks. That's \\?\C:\... and what I'm seeing is \??\C:\...

Is that just a typo/bug? That's the discrepancy that was confusing me :-(

Paul