Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000526130559.00ba7490@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:07:04 -0500 To: "Parker, Ron" , "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd) In-Reply-To: <200005261701.NAA11863@acestes-fe0.ultra.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:00 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote: >Which makes me wonder would a patch to cygwin be welcome that did the >following? > >* Make multiple introductory slashes on a path behave as a single >introductory slash >* Make paths that begin with name: and contain no backslashes behave as a >network path > >In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and >"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the Windows path >\\machine\dir\file. I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're excluding the case of "//"? Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX (508) 560-1285 - cell phone -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com