Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:38:55 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Support for "//d/foo" pathnames
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Morten Welinder wrote:

> How about
> 
>    //server/foo    UNC
>    \\server\foo    UNC
>    \\d\foo         UNC
>    //d/foo         drive

The inconsistency of \\ having different meaning from // is what's
bugging me.  For starters, if you pass `\\d\foo' through `_fixpath',
it converts it to `//d/foo', so at least `_fixpath' will need also to
be changed.  I'm afraid there are other such cases.

Maybe we should just try it and see how many things break?