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Re: UNC path syntax
- To: Jim Balter <jqb at netcom dot com>
- Subject: Re: UNC path syntax
- From: Ed Huott <huott at pinebush dot com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 21:48:16 -0500
- cc: Tom Yonkman <tyonkman at elementalsoftware dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
In message <3341A74E.627F@netcom.com>, Jim Balter writes:
>You can refer to UNC paths with, e.g., "\\xxx\y", but not
>"//xxx/y", which gets turned into "c:\xxx\y". You can use names like
Are you sure about this? With my (unpatched) copy of b17.1 running on
NT 3.51 or NT 4.0, cygwin's `ls' command fails when I use this syntax.
E.g.:
C:\>ls \\newt\c
ls: \\newt\c: No such file or directory
where "\\newt\c" is a valid share name on my network (i.e. I can do
`dir \\newt\c' and it works).
BTW, the behavior of `ls' invoked under bash is the same (with all \'s
properly escaped or quoted, of course! :-). Please let me know if
there's something I'm missing here.
<ED>
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