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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:20:58 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
        Olivier Fambon <Olivier.Fambon@inrialpes.fr>
Subject: Re: mkdir -p //d/lala/lolo does not work ?
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:36:57PM +0200, Olivier Fambon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is it just me, or mkdir -p is broken ?
> >
> > Is the // notation still supported ?
> 
> It's deprecated, it's recommended not to use it anymore and it will
> be dropped once and for all in the next Cygwin version.
> 

So instead do
  mkdir -p d:/lala/lolo
or
  mkdir -p /cygdrive/d/lala/lolo

-- 
Earnie.

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