Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 09:32:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Martin Bernreuther <Martin DOT Bernreuther AT po DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: UNC-Names with djgpp
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Martin Bernreuther wrote:

> I use djgpp on a NT-machine with rsxntdj
> Everything works fine on a local machine, but with
> \\domain\share\path (Universal Naming Convention)definitions the compiler
> won't find include files any more...

DJGPP doesn't support UNCs in pathnames.  The main reason is that DOS 
doesn't support them, so you would need to make the low-level I/O 
functions in the DJGPP libc know about UNCs and treat them specially.  
That would bloat the library code, and nobody had enough motivation to do 
that.

You should be able to work around the problem by mounting that file system
on some drive letter and using the drive letter instead.