From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95 and binutils-2.9
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990822104528 DOT 6405G-100000 AT is...
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> > 2) try to open  C:\/foo   (I know the name is bad, but Windows
> >            likes to say it cannot create file only after about 5
seconds)
>
> Probably because C:\/foo is first converted into C:\\foo, and that looks
> to Windows like a UNC, so it goes out to search the network...

Brilliant! Yes, that must be the problem. Can anyone test it?

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