Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)

Thu Sep 25 05:08:00 GMT 1997

Valery Fine wrote:
> Would someone from Cygnus explain a reason for Cygnus solution, 
> namely why they decided to use the notation as follows:
>> //<drive letter>/<the local path>
>
It's a drive letters notation used by MS POSIX subsystem for Windows NT and Softway's OpenNT. Bash 2.01 allows this notation.
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