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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:18:21 -0400
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: New output from mount.exe
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At 07:13 AM 4/5/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > 
> > At 04:41 PM 4/4/2001, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > >Outputting c:/foo could just as easily lead to the naive user inferring that
> > >c:/foo is a legal cygwin path.
> > 
> > Just one note.  c:/foo *is* a legal Cygwin path.
> > 
>
>And that was the point of an emphasis I made in a different thread on
>cygwin-apps.  And the point here is that since c:\foo becomes c:foo in
>bash then we should output c:/foo so that that is what the user becomes
>familiar with.


Yes Earnie, I should have referenced your very recent comment to this 
affect.  Also, I don't have any argument against your suggestion to output
c:/foo as opposed to c:\foo (or c:\\foo).



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