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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:23:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> Yes, we would have to change fixpath.  The drive (st_dev) would just
> be bogus - probably / or \ would be OK.

Beware: some programs do 'A' + st_dev, and expect to come up with a valid 
drive.

> > `ls' converts all 
> > backslashes to forward slashes (see ls-msdos.c in the ported sources), 
> 
> This isn't a problem - for example:
> 
> C:\>dir "//cws333/d$/djgpp"
>  Volume in drive \\cws333\d$ has no label.
>  ...(correct results)
> 
> So Windows is perfectly happy with forward slashes.

I know that, but that's not what I meant (putpath.c will mirror the 
slashes back to backslashes anyway).  What I think happens is this:

  - ls-msdos.c converts the UNC to //cws333/d$/djgpp
  - putpath collapses the leading // into a /
  - we then feed Windows with /cws333/d$/djgpp or \cws333\d$\djgpp, which 
    is something very different

> It's interesting - if you ask cmd.exe for the "drive" of a UNC bat file
> it gives you "\\" instead of "D:"  (a bug, should give entire share ...)

Why do you expect CMD to be devoid of bugs that we didn't find a way to 
solve? ;-)