Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

First, I would like to apologise for all the errors (grammatical, 
mistype, and dropped wording) in the original email.

On 7/31/2006 8:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> These are not valid paths in the DOS namespace.  It's an NT native
> device name which is mapped to \\.\physicaldrive0 in DOS.  See

Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

> If you want cygpath to create the correct Windows equivalents,
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

I would love to contribute, unfortunately cannot presently. I will 
however try to forward a suggestion for the Special Filenames section of 
the user manual, that flags the names as not being in the same 
"namespace" as most cygpath -w outputs, if that's ok?

> Corinna
> [who has that feeling this is an off-topic discussion for cygwin-talk]

As in it has become on-topic for cygwin ml, right? I should have 
re-adjusted when the second part of my email touched on cygpath. Sorry 
about that.

Regards,
Shaddy