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You could check the email archives for this answer.  It was reiterated 
even in the last week.  For your benefit and others, "//<drive>" in Cygwin
equates to UNC paths in Windows, so there is allot of network activity that's
generated by this syntax.  To avoid the performance issues and the general
syntax/semantic collisions, "//<drive>" is deprecated (and has been for some
time now).  Eventually (possibly very soon) it will be going away for good.
As Earnie mentioned, there are many syntax options that don't cause the 
problems I mentioned and provide full access to Windows drives.  You should 
get used to using one or all of these.  You'll quickly see that the change 
doesn't force much of a change on you.

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At 11:46 AM 3/23/2001, Simon McCaughey wrote:
>Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very
>useful...
>
>Simon.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
>To: "Dmitrii Pasechnik" <dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl>
>Cc: "Jeremy Greiner" <jeremy AT win1 DOT net>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 PM
>Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0
>
>
> > Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jeremy Greiner wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am running a script that is trying to access /dev/fd0 and it says it
> > > >doesn't exist.. how do I make such a file or point and actually have it
> > > >point to my floppy drive
> > >
> > > if your floppy is a: then just use
> > > //a
> > > to assess it.
> > > E.g.
> > > ls //a
> > > gives you the cygwin equivalent of
> > > dir a:
> > >
> >
> > Please, don't use the //a deprecated method, it will be going away.
> > Either use the /cygdrive/a method or the a:/ method.  You can also do
> > `mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /' and then do the /a method.
> >
> > If you're looking for the Raw Device method check the documentation at
> > http://cygwin.com .
> >
> > Earnie.
> >
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