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[Patrick Doyle]

Larry Hall wrote:
> 
> At 03:02 PM 1/30/2001, Timothee Besset wrote:
> >I went to http://www.cygwin.com and hit the button for the mail archives and got an error
> >says I have permission denied on http://www.delorie.com/archives/
> >
> >So anyway I'll ask my question here real quick .. is there a way to go on the network neighborhood from cygwin's bash? I tried cd //computer and cd \\computer ..
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >TTimo
> 
>  From bash, //<computer name>/<share name>/<directory name>.  Path completion
> doesn't kick in until you reach the <directory name> portion.

FWIW, my experience (with Windows98) has been that this doesn't work
unless I browse to the particular share name at least once with
Explorer.  Once I do that, then I can reference the particular share
names from within bash, emacs, MSDOS prompts, etc...

--wpd

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