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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:59:46 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: New feature in cygwin snapshot
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In-Reply-To: <20011124114303.A759759@TONY>; from tony.arnold@man.ac.uk on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:43:04AM +0000

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:43:04AM +0000, tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> This is an excellent improvement. Many thanks. Is it possible to extend this
> kind of functionality to the //./ syntax so that an ls //./ would show all
> the Posix style physical devices that are available?

You know that we're emulating POSIX devices, don't you?   What sense
is in having a native Windows view on devices if they are only
supported as POSIX devices?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

Corinna

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