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Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>William Wylde wrote:
>>
>> Corrina Vinschen scribed:
>
>Try it with "Corinna".
>
>> >As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes:
>> >
>> > ls //system/directory
>>
>> In a simular vein, is there any way to mount a remote drive (i.e. NFS) via
>> cygwin? If not, are there any plans to incorporate NFS support in a later
>> cygwin release?
>
>If remote drives are visible in the normal network neighborhood
>you can mount them with the usual mount command:
>
>mount -f -b //system/directory /whateveryouwant
Just to answer definitively: No. There are no plans to incorporate NFS
support into cygwin. Such support is completely outside of any of the
design goals of cygwin.
Cygwin is just a DLL. It is not a filesystem driver.
cgf
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