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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:27:18 -0500
From: Patrick Doyle <wpd AT delcomsys DOT com>
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To: Larry Hall <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: mail archives
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Larry Hall wrote:
> 
> At 03:34 PM 1/30/2001, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> >Larry Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > At 03:02 PM 1/30/2001, Timothee Besset wrote:
> > > >I went to http://www.cygwin.com and hit the button for the mail archives and got an error
> > > >says I have permission denied on http://www.delorie.com/archives/
> > > >
> > > >So anyway I'll ask my question here real quick .. is there a way to go on the network neighborhood from cygwin's bash? I tried cd //computer and cd \\computer ..
> > > >
> > > >thanks
> > > >
> > > >TTimo
> > >
> > >  From bash, //<computer name>/<share name>/<directory name>.  Path completion
> > > doesn't kick in until you reach the <directory name> portion.
> >
> >FWIW, my experience (with Windows98) has been that this doesn't work
> >unless I browse to the particular share name at least once with
> >Explorer.  Once I do that, then I can reference the particular share
> >names from within bash, emacs, MSDOS prompts, etc...
> 
> Interesting.  All the more reason to hate Win 9x!;-)
Actually, it's not that bad.  I've just gotten in the habit of browsing
to the particular folder I want once, sometime in the morning, and then
I forget about it for the rest of the day.  But I'm still not thrilled
with Win 9x!;-)

--wpd

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