mount and ln commands

[kevin.lawton@bt.com]

I think you'll find the backslash-forwardslash thing is dependant on whether you are running a version of Windoze NT (2000, XP, etc) or Windoze 95 (98, Me, etc). 
Historical note: The backslash-forwardslash thing was inherited from MS-DOS which inherited it from QDOS, which was itself a (dis)functional copy of CP/M which was often run from terminals with different special character keys than modern PCs. Unix, OTOH, was run on terminals with a different character set and so used the forwardslash as a separator in directory names and the hyphen to mark parameters. [History lesson ends] 
   
-----Original Message-----
From: Shankar Unni [mailto:shankar@cotagesoft.com]
Sent: 18 November 2003 18:25
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mount and ln commands

Erica Ramsey wrote:

> $ mount -tf "c:\PalmDev" /PalmDev

Use C:\\PalmDev.  Or better still, since Windows is really (trust me!)
agnostic about this under the command shell skin, use "C:/PalmDev" (i.e.
forward slashes).

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