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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:29:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: mount --- invalid argument
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In-Reply-To: <F234GtjS7pF4vO9rZTi00004284@hotmail.com>; from huttothomas@hotmail.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:29PM -0500

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:29PM -0500, Thomas Hutto wrote:
>thomasahutto AT THOMASAH ~
>$ mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>f:\cygwin\bin       /usr/bin            user         binmode
>f:\cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            user         binmode
>f:\cygwin           /                   user         binmode
>c:                  /c                  user         textmode
>d:                  /d                  user         textmode
>e:                  /e                  user         textmode
>f:                  /f                  user         textmode
>g:                  /g                  user         textmode
>
>thomasahutto AT THOMASAH ~
>$ mount f:\proj /proj
>mount: /proj: Invalid argument
>
>can't think why f:\proj exists.

The error message is misleading.  Bash interprets single backslashes as
a quoting character.  So, what you're really typing is:

mount f:proj /proj

To rectify, either:

mount f:\\proj /proj

or

mount f:/proj /proj

cgf

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