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Re: New output from mount.exe
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: New output from mount.exe
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 06:13:33 -0500
- CC: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>, cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010404180312.02131170@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> At 04:41 PM 4/4/2001, Parker, Ron wrote:
> >Outputting c:/foo could just as easily lead to the naive user inferring that
> >c:/foo is a legal cygwin path.
>
> Just one note. c:/foo *is* a legal Cygwin path.
>
And that was the point of an emphasis I made in a different thread on
cygwin-apps. And the point here is that since c:\foo becomes c:foo in
bash then we should output c:/foo so that that is what the user becomes
familiar with.
Earnie.
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