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Date:	Thu, 05 Apr 2001 06:13:33 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC:	"Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: New output from mount.exe
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 04:41 PM 4/4/2001, Parker, Ron wrote:
> >Outputting c:/foo could just as easily lead to the naive user inferring that
> >c:/foo is a legal cygwin path.
> 
> Just one note.  c:/foo *is* a legal Cygwin path.
> 

And that was the point of an emphasis I made in a different thread on
cygwin-apps.  And the point here is that since c:\foo becomes c:foo in
bash then we should output c:/foo so that that is what the user becomes
familiar with.

Earnie.

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