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Re: cygwin interaction with explorer


What leads you to believe that this is a cygwin problem?  I can
do a

ls \\host\share

with no problem.

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:54:58AM -0400, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
>That fixes it.  Thanks!
>
>Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: 	Mark Hadfield [mailto:m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz] 
>Sent:	Wednesday, May 16, 2001 00:46
>To:	Kevin Schnitzius
>Cc:	Cygwin Mailing List
>Subject:	Re: cygwin interaction with explorer
>
>From: "Kevin Schnitzius" <kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com>
>> I'd like vim to be the default action for txt, c, h, log, etc files.  So,
>on
>> my win2k machine, I set the default action to
>>
>> C:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe -u /usr/local/bin/dosrc "%1"
>>
>> This works great except if the file is on a remote server.  For example,
>if
>> the file is \\server\share\file.txt, vim will try to open
>> \server\share\file.txt, which of course fails.
>
>Try setting CYGWIN=noglob. This prevents Cygwin from fiddling with the file
>names before it sends them to vim. In my experience this fiddling (globbing)
>gives problems with \\server\share file names.
>
>---
>Mark Hadfield
>m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz  http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
>National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
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