From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Removing //<drive-letter>/
22 Sep 1998 08:33:16 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDE65D.AB7A54F0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com"
	 <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Larry Hall'" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>

Larry Hall wrote:
> Perhaps we don't need to replace //drive by anything.  If people want access 
> to their drives as letters, they can use their default share names and the
> //<hostname>/<sharename> syntax...
> 

UNC names are invalid if network support is not installed or file sharing is not enabled on Win9X.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia