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Re: New output from mount.exe
- To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: New output from mount.exe
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:18:21 -0400
- Cc: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>, cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010404180312.02131170@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
At 07:13 AM 4/5/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> >
> > At 04:41 PM 4/4/2001, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > >Outputting c:/foo could just as easily lead to the naive user inferring that
> > >c:/foo is a legal cygwin path.
> >
> > Just one note. c:/foo *is* a legal Cygwin path.
> >
>
>And that was the point of an emphasis I made in a different thread on
>cygwin-apps. And the point here is that since c:\foo becomes c:foo in
>bash then we should output c:/foo so that that is what the user becomes
>familiar with.
Yes Earnie, I should have referenced your very recent comment to this
affect. Also, I don't have any argument against your suggestion to output
c:/foo as opposed to c:\foo (or c:\\foo).
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX