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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:07:04 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
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At 12:00 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote:
>Which makes me wonder would a patch to cygwin be welcome that did the
>following?
>
>* Make multiple introductory slashes on a path behave as a single
>introductory slash
>* Make paths that begin with name: and contain no backslashes behave as a
>network path
>
>In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and
>"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the Windows path
>\\machine\dir\file.



I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're excluding the
case of "//"?



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