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Message-ID: | <39155A78.3FA56262@bigfoot.com> |
Date: | Sun, 07 May 2000 12:58:48 +0100 |
From: | Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> |
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To: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Idea: \\host\share\file -> /dev/net/host/share/file |
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Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Also, it is not clear to me what is simpler: to add the support for > /dev/net or just make sure \\host\share survives all the functions that > parse file names. From a user's point of view, it might be better to make \\host\share work as-is, rather than adding another special /dev thing. This would also be more useful in Windows batch files, etc., because you could just past UNC file names about.
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