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 To: Cygwin Users Subject: Re: mkdir -p //d/lala/lolo does not work ? References: <87pucpr0me.fsf@inrialpes.fr> <20010531174333.P1870@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3B1796BA.97466339@yahoo.com> From: Olivier Fambon Date: 01 Jun 2001 15:39:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B1796BA.97466339@yahoo.com> (Earnie Boyd's message of "Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:20:58 -0400") Message-ID: <87snhkpbdl.fsf@inrialpes.fr> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Earnie Boyd [Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:20:58 -0400] wrote: > > 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 > Ok. Thanxs. Which one is the official [i.e the one that is likely to be supported] ? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple