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From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert)
Subject: Re: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
25 Sep 1997 04:00:52 -0700 :
Message-ID: <342A3AF6.7B94.cygnus.gnu-win32@ixos-leipzig.de>
References: <199709250809 DOT KAA82498 AT sp060 DOT cern DOT ch>
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To: fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi,

in fact, it works with Cygwin32:

Try
ls //./c/

It works (even if you don't have a local share called 'c') as well as

ls //server/share


Gunther

Valery Fine wrote:
> 
>   Hello GNU-WIN32
> 
>   I realized that different companies making "UNIX" for windows adopt
> diff convention to manage "drive letter", but nobody (if I didn't
> miss something) did adopt a "native" Microsoft "UNC" way.
> 
>   Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution,
> namely why they decided to use the notation as follows:
> 
>   //<drive letter>/<the local path>
> 
> but not "native" UNC ( what should I do to access trhe share
> "bin" of the computer "D" for example ? )
> 
>   //./<drive letter>$/<the local path>
> 
>   where //. just  means the "local host"
> 
>   Likely it is not too late to introduce this one as well ?
> 
>     With my best regards,
> 
>                          Valery
> Dr. Valeri Faine (Valery Fine)
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