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Re: Newbie: W2K and Mounting problem.




--On Thurs, Oct 12, 2000 3:51 PM -0400 Chris Faylor wrote:

> Both the archives and the FAQ should state that if you are using backslash
> style paths in a bash shell, you have to either do:

I would expect

   http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC44

to explain it, and failing that, assume it's not mentioned in the FAQ.

I wish people would do an archive search before posting for help.  (Is that 
mentioned in the FAQ?)  But in this case, perhaps the error message from 
mount could be improved to make it easier for a newby to figure it out 
himself.

Seems to me (haven't checked the source) that the single backslash sucks up 
the space character, leaving the mount command with just a single argument. 
If so, then shouldn't mount dump a usage statement instead of giving the 
error that it does?

If I'm right, I'm willing to volunteer for this one, but not until next 
week.

-jeff


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