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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:17:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:09:50PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
>hi,
>
>a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
>this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as 
>a normal "unix"-path.
>
>i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path 
>like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share
>
>what was the idea behind the current behaviour?

Do you think that Microsoft employees read this mailing list?  I'm sure
that there are one or two but I doubt that they could speak definitively
about why Microsoft chose this behavior.

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