Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:31:05 +0300 (IDT)
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Do the net directors (if that's what they are called) handle "//"
> equivalently as "\\" (similar to DOZE's handling of "/" and "\")?

Windows does handle // and \\ the same, but I don't know about other 
redirectors.

Note that some Unix applications (notably, Emacs) will collapse multiple 
slashes, so //host/share is converted into /host/share.  The NT port of
Emacs has special very convoluted code to avoid this lossage.  (Of 
course, this code is precisely the reason why NTEmacs doesn't work with 
Cygwin very well ;-)