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Re: FW: pubdestroyer2001.exe via anonymous FTP?


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.

Corinna

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