From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert) Subject: Re: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion) 25 Sep 1997 04:00:52 -0700 Message-ID: <342A3AF6.7B94.cygnus.gnu-win32@ixos-leipzig.de> References: <199709250809 DOT KAA82498 AT sp060 DOT cern DOT ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, in fact, it works with Cygwin32: Try ls //./c/ It works (even if you don't have a local share called 'c') as well as ls //server/share Gunther Valery Fine wrote: > > Hello GNU-WIN32 > > I realized that different companies making "UNIX" for windows adopt > diff convention to manage "drive letter", but nobody (if I didn't > miss something) did adopt a "native" Microsoft "UNC" way. > > Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution, > namely why they decided to use the notation as follows: > > /// > > but not "native" UNC ( what should I do to access trhe share > "bin" of the computer "D" for example ? ) > > //./$/ > > where //. just means the "local host" > > Likely it is not too late to introduce this one as well ? > > With my best regards, > > Valery > Dr. Valeri Faine (Valery Fine) > ------------ ------------- Phone: +41 22 767 4921 > CERN FAX : +41 22 767 7155 > CH-1211 Geneva, 23 mailto:fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch > Switzerland http://nicewww.cern.ch/~fine > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". -- Gunther Ebert iXOS Anwendungs-Software GmbH Angerstrasse 40-42 D-04177 Leipzig Phone : +49 341 48503-0 Fax : +49 341 48503-99 E-mail: mailto:gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de www : http://www.ixos-leipzig.de - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".