Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/22/14:16:35
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Johan Venter wrote:
>
> > <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote in message news:B0000098901 AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv...
> > > PS. Second identical bug this week. First were in collect2 (gcc295X.zip)
> >
> > Yes, this is beginning to get scary. Is it a windows bug?
>
> It's not a bug, it's a ``feature'' ;-).
> When Windows sees a name with two leading backslashes, it thinks it might
> be a UNC (like \\SERVER\SHARE\DIR), so it searches the network for the
> server that exports such a share. What you see is the network time-out.
But the odd part is that it is preceded by a drive letter. So I don't
understand why it would be looking for a UNC. But on further attempt I realized
there are some more blatent problems with UNC's in DOS (using command.com from
DOS 7.2):
My machine name on my LAN is Endlisnis, and I have a share called 'movies'.
I typed "dir C:\\endlisnis\movies" and I got a listing of the contents of the
share.
I typed "cd C:\\endlisnis\movies" and my prompt changed to "C:\endlisnis\movies"
which of course it not a valid directory. Typing 'dir' gives the invalid
directory message.
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