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RE: mount and ln commands

From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
To: <kevin dot lawton at bt dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, <shankar at cotagesoft dot com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:51:55 -0500
Subject: RE: mount and ln commands
References: <CDDF0C56FD28F74CA268185D6EABD63303DCAC6B@i2km38-ukdy.domain1.systemhost.net>
Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>

At 01:43 PM 11/18/2003, kevin.lawton@bt.com you wrote:
>I think you'll find the backslash-forwardslash thing is dependant on whether you are running a version of Windoze NT (2000, XP, etc) or Windoze 95 (98, Me, etc). 


I'm not sure what you're basing this statement on but under the hood, the 
Win32 APIs understand both / and \ as path separators.  So there shouldn't
be a difference at the API-level between NT-based and 9x-based systems in 
terms of the path separators they handle.   This should translate into all
the Cygwin-based tools directly.  For any other toolset, YMMV.




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