From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10806 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2002 15:57:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10727 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 15:57:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firewall1ext.vx.com) (65.34.19.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 15:57:09 -0000 Received: from port (port.vx.com [192.168.1.231]) by firewall1ext.vx.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id g63FurN16415 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:56:53 -0400 From: "Bernard A Badger" To: Subject: dir \\.\c:\ Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <01e501c22294$fecd8060$0100a8c0@advent02> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00255.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Chris January > Subject: Re: Accessing filenames with different charsets > > > > What about filenames longer than MAX_PATH? Those can only be accessed > with > > > "\\.\" and unicode file functions... > > > > > What is "\\.\"? Doesn't work for me: > > > > dir \\.\ > > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > OT, but try this instead: > dir \\.\c:\ > > Chris So what _is_ it? It doesn't seem like a legitimate UNC name. It doesn't match \\Host\share\dir\dir2\. dir \\%COMPUTERNAME%\c:\ doesn't work either. (Sorry if this is too OT.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/