Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?

Sat Mar 18 16:58:00 GMT 2000

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>William Wylde wrote:
>>>> Corrina Vinschen scribed:
>>Try it with "Corinna".
>>> >As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes:
>> >
>> > ls //system/directory
>>>> In a simular vein, is there any way to mount a remote drive (i.e. NFS) via
>> cygwin? If not, are there any plans to incorporate NFS support in a later
>> cygwin release?
>>If remote drives are visible in the normal network neighborhood
>you can mount them with the usual mount command:
>>mount -f -b //system/directory /whateveryouwant

Just to answer definitively: No. There are no plans to incorporate NFS
support into cygwin. Such support is completely outside of any of the
design goals of cygwin.
Cygwin is just a DLL. It is not a filesystem driver.
cgf
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