mount removes backslashes

[Doug Wyatt]

From:           	johnwu@crt.com
To:             	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject:        	mount removes backslashes
Date sent:      	Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:53:59 -0500

Actually, I think what you are seeing is the shell removing the
escape characters (\) from the command line before mount
ever sees it.

Try
echo c:\foo\bar\bin

then try
echo c:\\foo\\bar\\bin

Regards,
Doug  
> 
> Version Beta 20.1 NT 4.0.
> If you mount a directory, the backslashes are removed in the win registry,
> e.g. mount c:\foo\bar\bin /xxx creates the following registry entry:
> c:foobarbin. 
> 
> 



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