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Re: Displaying shares

From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:45:51 -0700
Subject: Re: Displaying shares
References: <bk7r6a$dl$1@sea.gmane.org> <20030916215639.GQ23057@redhat.com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:

Try typing "dir \\server" at the command line. It doesn't work. That's because the windows functions FindFirstFile/FindNextFile don't understand shares. Neither does cygwin.

Ah ha! That makes sense.

I'm sure that cygwin could be extended to do the right thing in this case using mechanisms similar to what happens with /cygdrive. PGA.


Perhaps someday, perhaps someday...
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