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Re: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- To: perry at piermont dot com, fine at mail dot cern dot ch
- Subject: Re: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
- From: Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <ggp at informix dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:26:34 -0700
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:09:47 BST." <199709250809.KAA82498@sp060.cern.ch>
At 03:21 PM 9/25/97 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>"Valery Fine" writes:
>> but not "native" UNC ( what should I do to access trhe share
>> "bin" of the computer "D" for example ? )
>>
>> //./<drive letter>$/<the local path>
>>
>> where //. just means the "local host"
>
>1) That violates posix conventions on what ./ means....
>2) the dollar sign also nukes posix....
>
>Posix DOES recognise // conventions, though.
Well the $ simply means that the share is hidden, by default your hard
disks are available as the hidden administative share C$, D$ etc, but a)
you can change this, and b) you can delete this so you can't rely on it
existing. There is nothing to stop you sharing these as C and D or tom and
bill etc. if you choose.
Guy
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