UNC path syntax

[Ed Huott]

In message < 3341A74E.627F@netcom.com >, Jim Balter writes:
>You can refer to UNC paths with, e.g., "\\xxx\y", but not
>"//xxx/y", which gets turned into "c:\xxx\y".  You can use names like

Are you sure about this?  With my (unpatched) copy of b17.1 running on
NT 3.51 or NT 4.0, cygwin's `ls' command fails when I use this syntax.
E.g.:

  C:\>ls \\newt\c
  ls: \\newt\c: No such file or directory

where "\\newt\c" is a valid share name on my network (i.e. I can do
`dir \\newt\c' and it works).

BTW, the behavior of `ls' invoked under bash is the same (with all \'s
properly escaped or quoted, of course! :-).  Please let me know if
there's something I'm missing here.

<ED>
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