Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:44:25 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/ Message-ID: <20010315124425.A3027@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <71171405@toto.iv> <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de>; from ralf@akutech.de on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100 On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote: >* Corinna Vinschen >| Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous >| since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to >| eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future. > >Uh, please don't... :-/ Aren't single letter SMB servers rather rare? It's about a year too late to debate this. Sorry. >| Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead. > >As I described in another mail, this currently breaks my openssh >installation, so I stick with //c for now. Well, //c will be going away soon, so the clock is ticking. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple