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Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:44:25 -0500
- References: <71171405@toto.iv> <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote:
>* Corinna Vinschen
>| Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous
>| since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to
>| eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future.
>
>Uh, please don't... :-/ Aren't single letter SMB servers rather rare?
It's about a year too late to debate this. Sorry.
>| Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead.
>
>As I described in another mail, this currently breaks my openssh
>installation, so I stick with //c for now.
Well, //c will be going away soon, so the clock is ticking.
cgf
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