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Re: New output from mount.exe


>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:00:45 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:

> Again, this was not the rationale for this change.  Here is the change
> to mount.exe:
> 
> -  const char *format = "%-18s  %-18s  %-11s  %s\n";
> +  const char *format = "%s on %s type %s (%s)\n";
> 
> I didn't reformat slashes or do anything else that was not in the
> original version of mount.

Would you like to go a step further?

Corinna's idea "just printing slashes" can reduce chances for
newbies to fail to escape backslashes on creating a new entry
with the `mount' command. This would be fine.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


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