From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:21:16 +0300
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Subject:	Re: gcc-2.95 and binutils-2.9
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On 22 Aug 99, at 10:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > 	2) try to open  C:\/foo   (I know the name is bad, but Windows
> >            likes to say it cannot create file only after about 5 seconds)
> 
> Probably because C:\/foo is first converted into C:\\foo, and that looks 
> to Windows like a UNC, so it goes out to search the network...
> 

Tried to read network file under Win95
	C:\/machine/share/file
(of course replaces 'machine', 'share', 'file' with actual names)
and suceeded (however correct way should be \\machine\share\file)

Andris

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