From:	F DOT J DOT Wright AT qmw DOT ac DOT uk ("Dr Francis J. Wright")
Subject:	Re: gnu-win32 mount and nt-emacs
12 Jun 1997 20:43:10 -0700 :
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Anand Palaniswamy wrote:
> 
> NT-Emacs doesn't understand the mounts made with the gnu-win32 mount
> command.

That's because the precompiled versions are not compiled with the Cygnus
compiler, and I'm not aware that anyone has succeeded in doing so yet.

> Longer explanation:
>         For instance,
>                 bash$ mount c:/users/anandp /anandp
>         followed by
>                 C-x C-f /anandp/foobar.java RET
>         doesn't open c:/users/anandp/foobar.java
> 
> Is there a workaround? Or should I be asking some nt-emacs list?

Just use the normal full DOS/Windows paths, except that you can use /
instead of \.  The NT Emacs mailing list is
"ntemacs-users AT cs DOT washington DOT edu", but it appears that there is a fair
amount of overlap in membership of the two lists.

Francis
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