On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Andreas Petralia wrote: > > Why not use the UNC path directly instead? > > because of the following reasons: > > 1. > > i want to make the home-directories available in the directory /HOMES: > /HOMES/A, /HOMES/B, /HOMES/C, ... > and i think it's not possible to link to a UNC path (eg. ln -s > <UNC_path> /HOMES/A) is it?
It is possible. > 2. not every binary (tool) can handle UNC-paths Agreed :-(, but those tools are arguably broken. > 3. i would like to set up an environment, where *unix*-scripts+tools do > not have to know anything about UNC_paths. Why would they? And, as suggested in a later reply, use mount. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/
