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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3ABB8745.B9476D05@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:26:29 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon McCaughey CC: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: useing /dev/fd0 References: <3ABB5700.2C039A74@yahoo.com> <002d01c0b3b8$da992d80$0b5ba02f@europe.nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Simon McCaughey wrote: > > Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very > useful... > // is reserved by Win32 to refer to a host/server. It simply causes Cygwin confusion and delays when Cygwin tries to look for a server named //a which doesn't exist. The more servers the more the delay. the //server/share use will still be supported by Cygwin the //a use will not. It will be to your benefit to mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix / so that you can `ls /a; ls /c; ls /d' instead of `ls /cygdrive/a; ls /cygdrive/b; ls /cygdrive/c; ls /cygdrive/d'. Earnie. P.S.: This has been discussed before, search the archives. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple