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Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
From: Dan Kegel <dank AT kegel DOT com>
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'm confused. Let me ask a different way - why not fix such scripts instead?
> That's all I'm asking.

He's probably daunted by the thought.

If he really wants to change the world here, he should
consider writing a tool that scanned for such problems,
and lobbying to get it included in some broadly used suite of checks
like lintian.
- Dan

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