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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:58:34 -0500
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Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
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In-Reply-To: <38D37020.9A2AAC1F@vinschen.de>; from corinna@vinschen.de on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>William Wylde wrote:
>> 
>> Corrina Vinschen scribed:
>
>Try it with "Corinna".
>
>> >As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes:
>> >
>> >     ls //system/directory
>> 
>> In a simular vein, is there any way to mount a remote drive (i.e. NFS) via
>> cygwin?  If not, are there any plans to incorporate NFS support in a later
>> cygwin release?
>
>If remote drives are visible in the normal network neighborhood
>you can mount them with the usual mount command:
>
>mount -f -b //system/directory /whateveryouwant

Just to answer definitively: No.  There are no plans to incorporate NFS
support into cygwin.  Such support is completely outside of any of the
design goals of cygwin.

Cygwin is just a DLL.  It is not a filesystem driver.

cgf

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