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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:39:58 +0300
From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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Subject: Re[2]: Problems with make install of tiff libs
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Hello Michael,

Thursday, May 11, 2000, 10:44:23 AM, you wrote:

MR> The problem is, that double slashes at the beginning of a pathname are
MR> interpreted as the access to an nt-drive.

MR> //c/ means look at c:\ of my installation.

MR> Paths like
MR> ///usr

MR> are misinterpreted by cygwin which ends in the no such device or address
MR> error-message.

    Btw, susv2 has following about it: it is implementation dependent
how path beginning with *two* slashes treated. All other numbers
should be collapsed into single.



Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua



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