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RE: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"


----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 14 April 2005 13:17

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Ashley Ward
>> Sent: 14 April 2005 13:11
> 
> 
>> Perhaps I'm not being clear enough.  I'm suggesting changing example
>> 3.10 in the manual from
>>    mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data
>> to
>>    mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' /data
> 
> 
>   Pay closer attention to the prompt in that example!


   And indeed to the two sentences immediately following the diagram:

"  Note that mount was invoked from the Windows command shell in the
previous example.   In many Unix shells, including bash, it is legal and
convenient to use the forward "/" in Win32 pathnames since the "\" is the
shell's escape character.  "


  I don't think it's appropriate to try and understand documentation by only
looking at the examples and ignoring the surrounding explanatory text....


    cheers,
      DaveK
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