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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:05:31 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
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At 11:55 AM 3/17/00, David White wrote:
>Any pointers are appreciated...
>
>I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a shared
>drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC format
>\\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is there a
>special cygnus format for this sort of thing?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>David



Same.  But (forward) slashes are easier to use since it negates the need to 
escape the back slashes.



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