From: rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org (Parker, Ron) Subject: RE: Removing /// 22 Sep 1998 12:33:40 -0700 Message-ID: <199809221902.MAA12919.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BDE65C.20940756" To: Larry Hall , Christopher Faylor , cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BDE65C.20940756 Content-Type: text/plain If you are referring to cd \\machine\X$, this won't do much for Win9x users. This is an NT only thing. -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:46 AM To: Christopher Faylor; cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Removing /// At 10:09 AM 9/22/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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/. 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. > 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 /// syntax... Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. 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