From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
25 Sep 1997 05:32:57 -0700
Message-ID: <01BCC9CD.3115C440.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch'"
	 <fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch>

Valery Fine wrote:
>   Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution, 
> namely why they decided to use the notation as follows:
> 
>   //<drive letter>/<the local path>
> 

It's a drive letters notation used by MS POSIX subsystem for Windows NT and Softway's OpenNT. Bash 2.01 allows this notation.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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