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From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:39:38 -0500
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote:
> On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote:
>>
>> I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it
>> was
>> always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now
>> warns about using W32-style paths.
>
> If you're talking about using '\' as the path separator, yes, it is always
> preferable to use '/' instead. =A0However, with Cygwin, there is no reason
> you cannot use '/' for UNC paths, just like you can with DOS-like paths
> that Cygwin typically permits (i.e. C:/local/directory).
>
>> Thanks very much for the help.
>
> Glad I could help.
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I always use forward slashes for UNC paths in Cygwin.

Typing 'ls //someserver/someshare' is much easier to look at than 'ls
\\\\someserver\\someshare' don't you think?

Although hitting the hidden admin shares does require a slash 'ls
//someserver/ADMIN\$'

-Jason

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