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). Historical note: The backslash-forwardslash thing was inherited from MS-DOS which inherited it from QDOS, which was itself a (dis)functional copy of CP/M which was often run from terminals with different special character keys than modern PCs. Unix, OTOH, was run on terminals with a different character set and so used the forwardslash as a separator in directory names and the hyphen to mark parameters. [History lesson ends] -----Original Message----- From: Shankar Unni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 November 2003 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount and ln commands
Erica Ramsey wrote: > $ mount -tf "c:\PalmDev" /PalmDev Use C:\\PalmDev. Or better still, since Windows is really (trust me!) agnostic about this under the command shell skin, use "C:/PalmDev" (i.e. forward slashes). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
