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From: Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com>
Subject: Double back slash.  Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... 
In-reply-to: "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:58:28 +1000." "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>  
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:43:38 +0600

I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated...
or rather that it could be simplifed to d:/foo.  Or if you made the
shell read :\ as :\ then we would have a more uniform interface...

Hmmm... I'm sure that this issue is more complicated than I understand
at this point.

I'm just remembering how much I appreciated it when samba made their
commands parse //host/share as well as \\\\host\\share.

In message <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E90 AT itdomain003 DOT itdomain DOT net DOT au>, "Robert Collins" writes:
> As for the tools, by and large they all support d:\foo syntax as well -
> but remember, if you run them within bash, the \ becomes an escape
> character, so you need d:\\foo for the tool to see the backslash.
> 
> Rob
> 
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