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Re: Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Milton Calnek <milton at calnek dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:50:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...
- References: <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> <200204191543.VAA04230@sentry-lan.unibase.com>
Milton -
d:/foo works now (in cygwin progs like bash) It even works in
windows file dialogs -- but not in cmd.exe or command.com, contrary to
my post a few minutes ago. I got confused.
--chuck
Milton Calnek wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated...
> or rather that it could be simplifed to d:/foo. Or if you made the
> shell read :\ as :\ then we would have a more uniform interface...
>
> Hmmm... I'm sure that this issue is more complicated than I understand
> at this point.
>
> I'm just remembering how much I appreciated it when samba made their
> commands parse //host/share as well as \\\\host\\share.
>
> In message <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E90@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>, "Robert Collins" writes:
>
>>As for the tools, by and large they all support d:\foo syntax as well -
>>but remember, if you run them within bash, the \ becomes an escape
>>character, so you need d:\\foo for the tool to see the backslash.
>>
>>Rob
>>
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