Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:06:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Rolf Campbell <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE crashes without traceback. [solved!]
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Rolf Campbell wrote:

>     I think you misunderstood me.  I wasn't saying that it wasn't network
> related.  All I was saying was that network time-out's are usually much shorter
> than 5 seconds (especially for invalid machine names).  I don't understand why
> Windows would treat C:\\name different than \\name

I don't understand that, either.  Many Windows features look like they 
are bugs, anyway, so it's easy to confuse them.

>     I agree that C:\\foo and C:\/foo both cause network traffic, but I don't
> understand why Windows waits longer for "C:\\foo" than for "\\foo".

I guess we will never know, since MS won't release the sources...