Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <199909240250.WAA26973@dagda.sunflower.com> From: "Doug Wyatt" To: johnwu@crt.com Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:49:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: mount removes backslashes Reply-to: dwyatt@sunflower.com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) From: johnwu@crt.com To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: mount removes backslashes Date sent: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:53:59 -0500 Actually, I think what you are seeing is the shell removing the escape characters (\) from the command line before mount ever sees it. Try echo c:\foo\bar\bin then try echo c:\\foo\\bar\\bin Regards, Doug > > Version Beta 20.1 NT 4.0. > If you mount a directory, the backslashes are removed in the win registry, > e.g. mount c:\foo\bar\bin /xxx creates the following registry entry: > c:foobarbin. > > ========================================================== Doug Wyatt E-Mail: dwyatt@sunflower.com Sys Admin Phone: 785-843-4099 Kohlman Systems Research, Inc. Fax: 785-843-6459 319 Perry St., Lawrence, KS 66044 USA -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com