Re: FW: pubdestroyer2001.exe via anonymous FTP?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:45:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > >This suggests to me that (as a faaaaar off when-time-happens) we might
> > >be able to handle some of the tricky things like source dirs called
> > >"aux" by redirecting the posix name aux to \\.\.....\aux.
> > >
> > >Anyway, not planning to do this now, or expecting anyone else to, just
> > >mailing so the concept is in the archives.
> >
> > Yeah, it's been mentioned before.  I don't believe that syntax works on
> > Windows 9x, though, does it?
> 
> That syntax is only supported by NT.  \\.\ is the mapping of the
> NT internal \??\ namespace into the Win32 namespace.
> 

And doesn't make much sense since the usual case in UNIX land is to
create a directory or file named aux; not access to some special device
name.

Earnie.

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