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Re: New feature in cygwin snapshot


Corinna,

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:59:46PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:43:04AM +0000, tony.arnold@man.ac.uk wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 
> > This is an excellent improvement. Many thanks. Is it possible to extend this
> > kind of functionality to the //./ syntax so that an ls //./ would show all
> > the Posix style physical devices that are available?
> 
> You know that we're emulating POSIX devices, don't you?   What sense
> is in having a native Windows view on devices if they are only
> supported as POSIX devices?
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

OK, I think I had misunderstood what was going on! I'd seen the above page
but hadn't taken in the details below the section with the mount examples.
It's much clearer now. Thanks. Maybe what I was really asking was for 'ls
/dev' to give me a list of all device available on the system similar to
Chris's 'ls /cygdrive' listing all the drive letters. Does that make more
sense or am I still in cloud cuckoo land?

Regards,
Tony.
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