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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:16:04 +0200 (IST)
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> C:\>dir z:\\cws333\d$\djgpp
>  Volume in drive \\cws333\d$ has no label.
>  ...
> 
> So if there is a UNC after the drive it uses the UNC and ignores the
> drive.  The drive can even be non-mapped.

Does this happen if you call, say, findfirst with z:\\cws333\d$\djgpp, or 
only from the CMD's command line?  If the latter, it might be a 
``feature'' of the way the shell parses file names.