Using cron with network share

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote:
> I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was
> always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now
> warns about using W32-style paths.

If you're talking about using '\' as the path separator, yes, it is always
preferable to use '/' instead.  However, with Cygwin, there is no reason
you cannot use '/' for UNC paths, just like you can with DOS-like paths
that Cygwin typically permits (i.e. C:/local/directory).

> Thanks very much for the help.

Glad I could help.

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