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From:	Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject:	Re: paths like //usr/local
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:54:01 -0700
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On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:

> the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an 
> UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a 
> unix-environment.

And there are other things too. Perhaps cygwin should ban "\" file 
separators in paths? After all, most Unix-en don't accept "\" as a file 
component separator, and "\" is a legal character in filenames on Unix-en..

Cygwin is not Linux.
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Shankar.




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