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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote: >Allright let's escape the colon > >$ mount c: /blah\:drivec >mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist. > >$ cd /blah\:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory > >$ cd /blah:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory > >$ umount /blah\:drivec >umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument > >$ umount /blah:drivec >umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument > >$ mount >C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) >C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) >C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) >c: on /blah:drivec type user (textmode) > >However unix pathnames do allow for colons and I thought the point of >using mount is that we could use stuff that unix pathnames use like / >that Windows can't. Cygwin is probably interpreting the existence of a colon in the filename as an indication that the path should be considered to be an MS-DOS path. cgf -- 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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