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RE: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:20:34 +0100
- Subject: 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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