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Re: //c - Ouch!
- To: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: //c - Ouch!
- From: "Keith Starsmeare" <keith_starsmeare at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:28:11 +0100
- References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602D019@wilber.adroit.com>
> > As cgf was saying the other day, small incremental changes are often
more
> > acceptable in open source projects. Maybe the cygwin dll should have
gone
> > through a six month period whereby //c was broken completely and then
> > repaired to recognise UNC paths rather than local drives.
> Except that UNC paths have been recognized for a long time.
Not if the server name was just one letter!
> > I do know that the //c provided such a useful way to describe
> > a local drive
> /c is even more useful. Use mount!!!
*I* know not to use //c - *I* follow the mail list. And btw, mount -c / is
much simpler than mounting your drives!
> > ...
> > It's just that the implications will effect a lot of users
> No, it will not. //c has been deprecated for a long time.
> Nearly all users have made the transition.
> [I bet my unsupported assertion is more accurate than yours.]
Hmm. If you were using cygwin without following the list, just how would you
know that it's been deprecated for a long time - it worked without problems,
warning or errors.
Keith (beginning to regret starting this thread)
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