From:	err AT raelity DOT com (Ernie Rael)
Subject:	Re: patch for diropen() fixes access to root directory
2 Jan 1997 11:39:52 -0800 :
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In Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:33:21 -0600 (CST), scottk AT rimu DOT ig DOT utexas DOT edu wrote:

>A number of programs have trouble with accessing "/".
>The problem seems to be due to opendir() changing "/"
>into "c:\/*".  This patch fixes this and allows "ls /"
>to work correctly.  This doesn't fix "ls //".

I'm on NT4.0, "ls /" works fine. The mount table contains
the entry
	c:     /    native      no-mixed,text!=3Dbinary
Think this is a windows95 thing?
-ernie
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