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: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:59:46 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New feature in cygwin snapshot Message-ID: <20011124125946.W14975@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011124034715.GA6012@redhat.com> <20011124114303.A759759@TONY> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011124114303.A759759@TONY>; from tony.arnold@man.ac.uk on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:43:04AM +0000 On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:43:04AM +0000, tony.arnold@man.ac.uk wrote: > Chris, > > This is an excellent improvement. Many thanks. Is it possible to extend this > kind of functionality to the //./ syntax so that an ls //./ would show all > the Posix style physical devices that are available? You know that we're emulating POSIX devices, don't you? What sense is in having a native Windows view on devices if they are only supported as POSIX devices? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/