From:	alainm AT news DOT RISQ DOT QC DOT CA (Alain Magloire)
Subject:	Re: UNC with djgpp?
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Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:44:43 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 shanec AT mindspring DOT com wrote:

: > C:\djgpp\bin>rm \\ga016f95\sys\cla\shane\test
: > c:/djgpp/bin/rm: //ga016f95/sys/cla/shane/test: No such file or
: > directory (ENOENT)

: Short answer: DJGPP doesn't support UNCs, so you cannot have them.
....
: I suggest to rethink this design decision.  You have up to 32 drives
: at your disposal; if that is not enough (but please explain why), I'm
: sure alternative solutions could be found if you explain what are you
: trying to do that you need so many different drives.  Going the UNC
: path is IMHO a dead end.

A bit off topic :
This is true on the Unix side,  in QNX, which has a distributed model,
node could be access like this, for example getting a file on node161

	less //161/etc/passwd

It turned out to be a pain, since many Unix utilities will smash
the '//' to '/'.  So all utilities could not be use out-of-the-box
they needed to be checked for this.  Now they've taken a different route
to implement distribution.

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au revoir, alain
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