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From: | Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com> |
Subject: | Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... |
In-reply-to: | "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:58:28 +1000." "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> |
Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:43:38 +0600 |
I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated... or rather that it could be simplifed to d:/foo. Or if you made the shell read :\ as :\ then we would have a more uniform interface... Hmmm... I'm sure that this issue is more complicated than I understand at this point. I'm just remembering how much I appreciated it when samba made their commands parse //host/share as well as \\\\host\\share. In message <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E90 AT itdomain003 DOT itdomain DOT net DOT au>, "Robert Collins" writes: > As for the tools, by and large they all support d:\foo syntax as well - > but remember, if you run them within bash, the \ becomes an escape > character, so you need d:\\foo for the tool to see the backslash. > > Rob > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Milton Calnek milton AT calnek DOT com Everything should be as simple as possible - but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein as quoted by Peter G. Neumann in CHATS Principles -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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