Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:07:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Support for "//d/foo" pathnames
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Is it a good idea to include support for the above in v2.02's putpath (to 
be converted to "d:/foo")?

Right now, only Bash supports it, which requires some tricky setup to make
it convert the file names before it invokes external programs, and also
fails in some cases (such as Sed scripts where `/' doesn't mean a
directory separator). 

The purpose for this support is, of course, running Unix shell scripts 
with minimal changes (the colon after the DOS drive letter breaks many 
scripts).  An obvious disadvantage is that a UNC like \\server\foo might 
get in the way (especially if ``server'' is a single letter).