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Subject:	RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:55 +0100
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On 19 April 2007 18:47, Dave Korn wrote:

  Sorry, one minor correction:

>   You can invoke the standard "net use" command with only the slight
> complication of having to either escape or quote the backslashes, or use
> forward slashes.  

  You can't use forward slashes in this context.  They work fine to specify a
UNC path for cygwin applications, but don't pass through to windows command
executables properly.  Pardon the confusion.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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