Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/23/07:36:48
On 22 Aug 99, at 10:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> > 2) try to open C:\/foo (I know the name is bad, but Windows
> > likes to say it cannot create file only after about 5 seconds)
>
> Probably because C:\/foo is first converted into C:\\foo, and that looks
> to Windows like a UNC, so it goes out to search the network...
>
Tried to read network file under Win95
C:\/machine/share/file
(of course replaces 'machine', 'share', 'file' with actual names)
and suceeded (however correct way should be \\machine\share\file)
Andris
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