Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: No more //c To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: frederick DOT page AT amb-informatik DOT de Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:09:08 +0100 Message-Id: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on POP301/AMComNET/DE(Release 5.0.7 |April 5, 2001) at 06.09.2001 12:08:31 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi there, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00109.html says about the upcoming changes in Cygwin 1.3.3: Briefly, the problem with using //x to refer to drive x is that it clashes with Windows' use of // to denote a network share. So a system called 'x' on your network was previously inaccessible to cygwin. I'm not sure, whether this new change is necessary at all: to my understanding, Windows uses the non-standard backslash, a network share would be noted here as \\Sharename (and *not* //Sharename). Am I missing something? Kind regards Frederick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/