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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:45:18 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> I would need to think about this - we would need to recognize UNCs as
> being driveless and handle specially.  You can't CD to them, just
> open files, do file I/O

It is IMHO a bad idea to disallow chdir on UNC directories: some
applications depend on that.  Important shell scripts, such as
texi2dvi, and some programs from the TeX-related packages come to
mind.

It is also a misfeature in general to have a directory which cannot be
chdir'ed into.  We cannot expect to get away with that.

Perhaps you could look into what Windows programs, such as COMMAND.COM
or CMD.EXE, do when you type "cd \\cws333\c$\djgpp".