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RE: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'fine at mail dot cern dot ch'" <fine at mail dot cern dot ch>
- Subject: RE: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:07:55 +0400
Valery Fine wrote:
> Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution,
> namely why they decided to use the notation as follows:
>
> //<drive letter>/<the local path>
>
It's a drive letters notation used by MS POSIX subsystem for Windows NT and Softway's OpenNT. Bash 2.01 allows this notation.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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