Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/09/25/04:00:52
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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