Re: paths like //usr/local

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>]

Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:

> cygwin allows the user to specify paths like: c:\foo\bar and c:/foo/bar.
> Similarly, it allows //foo/bar and \\foo\bar .

> If that doesn't satisfy you then you can go back to the "Because we're mean"
> argument.

I've been hurt by this too, and it makes me think.  It would be even
more satisfactory if some configurable list of 'hosts' would map to
//localhost/.  Hosts with names such as \\bin, \\etc, \\tmp,
\\usr or \\var come to mind.

Now if such a thing could be implemented without some horrible kludge,
would that be nice?

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org


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