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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Removing //<drive-letter>/
21 Sep 1998 17:52:04 -0700 :
Message-ID: <19980921172653.50860.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
References: <19980921162126 DOT 12055 AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> Another idea:  How about something like /c:/ ?

That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.

DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>.  This is probably the best
suggestion I've heard so far?

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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