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RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)




At 04:07 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > >In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and
> > >"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the 
> > Windows path
> > >\\machine\dir\file.
>
> > I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're 
> > excluding the
> > case of "//"?
>
>That wasn't exactly what I was thinking.  I used three for emphasis, but
>meant that one or more initial slashes would be treated as a single initial
>slash.
>
>It is the Friday before a long weekend and I might be completely brain-dead,
>but I don't remember a special significance to '//' in UNIX.


Right.  The significance is for UNC paths which can be easily access currently
using "//<server name>/<share name>" in Cygwin now...


Larry



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