Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/25/22:46:33
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't saying that it wasn't network
> related. All I was saying was that network time-out's are usually much shorter
> than 5 seconds (especially for invalid machine names). I don't understand why
> Windows would treat C:\\name different than \\name
I don't understand that, either. Many Windows features look like they
are bugs, anyway, so it's easy to confuse them.
> I agree that C:\\foo and C:\/foo both cause network traffic, but I don't
> understand why Windows waits longer for "C:\\foo" than for "\\foo".
I guess we will never know, since MS won't release the sources...
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