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	"'Charles Sandmann'" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: UNC examples
Date:	Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:41:05 +0100
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> > The file utils cat program built with djgpp does this too.  So both
> > cat \\cws333\d$\djgpp\setup.bat and cat 
> z:\\cws333\d$\djgpp\setup.bat
> > work.
> 
> This can still be the shell feature.  Are you sure the file name gets
> into the program intact, with the bogus drive letter?

Yep.  Just tried a little argv printing proglet, and it shows the
\:\\foo\bar filename as passed.  The fact that the UNC seems to get
evaluated (a fairly long delay running it the first time) is probably
a "feature" command.com shares with its 32-bit brother cmd.exe.
We can probably use this, as long as we're sure never to pass such a
bogus name to a program that doesn't support it (i.e. any non-DJGPP
program other than cmd.exe/command.com).

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