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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 12:58:48 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Idea: \\host\share\file -> /dev/net/host/share/file
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Also, it is not clear to me what is simpler: to add the support for
> /dev/net or just make sure \\host\share survives all the functions that
> parse file names.

From a user's point of view, it might be better to make \\host\share work
as-is, rather than adding another special /dev thing. This would also be
more useful in Windows batch files, etc., because you could just past UNC
file names about.