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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>,
        "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
Subject: RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:10:55 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 6:27 PM
> To: Parker, Ron; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:22 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > > Right.  The significance is for UNC paths which can be easily 
> > > access currently
> > > using "//<server name>/<share name>" in Cygwin now...
> >
> >Understood.  My intention was that server:share would be converted to
> >\\server\share before it reached the Windows file API's used 
> inside of
> >cygwin.  
> >
> >The entire idea was that many UNIX programs parse the colon 
> paths as network
> >paths already and this would bring cygwin a little more 
> inline with the UNIX
> >world.
> 
> 
> Actually, I should have said "//<server name>/<share 
> name>/<path>" to be 
> clear.
> 
> I guess as long as the NFS style syntax was supported by 
> Cygwin and was 
> supported in all places that the current UNC paths are 
> supported in Windows
> (i.e. *everywhere*), there shouldn't be any loss of 
> functionality with this
> change...
> 


Perhaps, but a great loss of compatibility... :-(

BTW, how did you put server:/tools/bin in you PATH?

Bernard

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