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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:17:09 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/
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In-Reply-To:	<15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de>; from ralf@akutech.de on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote:
> * Corinna Vinschen
> | Bash is a UNIX shell. Why not using UNIX paths?
> 
> Because we use non-Cygwin programs which don't grok /cygwin pathnames.
> Unfortunately, there is a world besides cygwin.
> 
> $ cl     t.c   -o t
> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 11.00.7022 for 80x86
> ...
> $ ./t /cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat c:/autoexec.bat
> 1: /cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat: fopen failed
> 2: c:/autoexec.bat: fopen succeeded
> 
> | Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous
> | since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to
> | eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future.
> 
> Uh, please don't... :-/ Aren't single letter SMB servers rather rare?
> 
> | Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead.
> 
> As I described in another mail, this currently breaks my openssh
> installation, so I stick with //c for now.

Why don't you mount your drives and drop the double slash:

	mount -f -s -b C: /c
	...

Corinna

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