From:	rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org (Parker, Ron)
Subject:	RE: Removing //<drive-letter>/
22 Sep 1998 12:33:40 -0700 :
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To:	Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com>, Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>,
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If you are referring to cd \\machine\X$, this won't do much for Win9x
users.  This is an NT only thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:46 AM
To: Christopher Faylor; cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Removing //<drive-letter>/


At 10:09 AM 9/22/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 05:26 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>>>On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Another idea:  How about something like /c:/ ?
>>>
>>>That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.
>>>
>>>DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>.  This is probably the best
>>>suggestion I've heard so far?
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, I've never been that intrigued by the //drive syntax, especially
since
>>it contradicts the UNC stuff (although I suppose it could be that I
started
>>on UNIX so I don't like these drive letters too!;-)).  I still vote
(if we 
>>are!;-)) to ditch this syntax.  If we need to support drive letters
for
>>more windows-oriented purists, I think putting the drives somewhere
(maybe
>>as DJ suggested) is a good compromise. 
>
>I am not wedded to //drive syntax but I don't really like grabbing the
>directory /mnt as our own special directory.  I think that it is likely
>that people may already have a directory by that name.
>

Perhaps we don't need to replace //drive by anything.  If people want
access 
to their drives as letters, they can use their default share names and
the
//<hostname>/<sharename> syntax...


Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
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