From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Removing //<drive-letter>/
22 Sep 1998 07:33:48 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>At 05:26 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Another idea:  How about something like /c:/ ?
>>
>>That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.
>>
>>DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>.  This is probably the best
>>suggestion I've heard so far?
>>
>
>Yeah, I've never been that intrigued by the //drive syntax, especially since
>it contradicts the UNC stuff (although I suppose it could be that I started
>on UNIX so I don't like these drive letters too!;-)).  I still vote (if we 
>are!;-)) to ditch this syntax.  If we need to support drive letters for
>more windows-oriented purists, I think putting the drives somewhere (maybe
>as DJ suggested) is a good compromise. 

I am not wedded to //drive syntax but I don't really like grabbing the
directory /mnt as our own special directory.  I think that it is likely
that people may already have a directory by that name.

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