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Re: 1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)
On Dec 15 16:27, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/15 Corinna Vinschen:
> > \?? is a shortcut for the DOS device subdirectory in the native NT
> > namespace. ?"C:\foo" in DOS is "\??\C:\foo" in native NT speak.
> > "\\server\share" in DOS is "\??\UNC\server\share".
>
> Shouldn't that be '\\?' rather than '\??' though?
No. \\?\ is the Win32 prefix for long pathnames. Internally it will
be translated to \??\ before calling the native NT functions.
Corinna
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