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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:44:25 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/
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In-Reply-To: <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de>; from ralf@akutech.de on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote:
>* Corinna Vinschen
>| Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous
>| since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to
>| eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future.
>
>Uh, please don't... :-/ Aren't single letter SMB servers rather rare?

It's about a year too late to debate this.  Sorry.

>| Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead.
>
>As I described in another mail, this currently breaks my openssh
>installation, so I stick with //c for now.

Well, //c will be going away soon, so the clock is ticking.

cgf

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