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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "'Charles Sandmann'" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject: Re: UNC examples
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:46:37 +0100
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> > C:\>dir z:\\cws333\d$\djgpp
> >  Volume in drive \\cws333\d$ has no label.
> >  ...
> > 
> > So if there is a UNC after the drive it uses the UNC and ignores the
> > drive.  The drive can even be non-mapped.
> 
> Does this happen if you call, say, findfirst with 
> z:\\cws333\d$\djgpp, or 
> only from the CMD's command line?  If the latter, it might be a 
> ``feature'' of the way the shell parses file names.

Since 4NT does not exhibit this behaviour, I'm assuming it's a
cmd.exe 'feature' (unless 4NT's lack of support is a 4NT
'feature' of course :-) )

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