Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 17:30:09 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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	Str|mberg on Sat, 6 May 2000 12:11:56 +0200 (MET DST))
Subject: Re: Idea: \\host\share\file -> /dev/net/host/share/file
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 12:11:56 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> How easy would it be to add the UNC functionality by mapping
> \\host\share\file to /dev/net/host/share/file and back?

On plain DOS or on Windows?

If the latter, then you don't have to do anything, except to take care
to pass the \\host\share\file UNC to the functions of Int 21h, and
Windows will do the rest.  The problem is that some of the library
functions do destructive things to such UNCs, but that's all you need
to take care of to get the UNCs supported.

If you want to support UNCs on DOS, then mapping to /dev/net/whatever
will not really help, since some machinery needs to communicate to the
network redirector so that it understands the /dev/net/ stuff.