From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question for me?
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:39:17 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The port of `bash' uses double slash "//d/djgpp/bin".  This is AFAIK
> the only way this can work, since Unix programs explicitly code the
> `/' character as the first character of absolute pathnames; any other
> prefix character will still need DOS-specific code.
> 
> However, building this convention into DJGPP means you have to rewrite
> some low-level file-oriented functions, because DOS knows nothing
> about such filenames (the current code in libc collapses multiple
> slashes into a single slash).

As do most Unix shells:

    max AT newton:~% ls Tmp
    array       array.cc    array.o
    max AT newton:~% ls Tmp//array.cc
    Tmp//array.cc

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