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RE: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'


Bernard Dautrevaux writes:

Norman Vine wrote:
>> 
>> Earnie Boyd writes:
>> 
>> >Well, as Chris corrected, the current 1.1.4 release does allow the \
>> >reference to refer to the root of the current device.  
>> 
>> Yes, however this feature may not always yield the 'expected' result.
>> 
>> NHV:/f> mkdir foo
>> NHV:/f> cd foo
>> NHV:/f/foo> touch jnk
>> NHV:/f/foo> ls \foo
>
>Don't you think you must:
>	ls \\foo 
>or
>	ls '\foo'
>here? You've in fact typed 
>	ls foo
>as \f is translated to f by bash...

Exactly !

I was just trying to point out that a non-unix savy user who
'might' naively rely on MSDos path specifications might not 
always get what they expected.

Hence my echoing of Ernie's advice :-)

>> >Let me suggest that in order to make your life easier that you
>> >use Cygwin POSIXly.

Cheers

Norman
 

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