-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 5/27/2005 6:38 AM: > A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-6, is available. > > This release changes dd(1) to default to binary mode, and adds command > line options iflag=text and oflag=text to specify binary. It also fixes > mkdir(1) and install(1) to respect the new meaning of // and //server > introduced in cygwin 1.5.17.
Therefore, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 is out of date, and we need a FAQ update. It is now possible to do `mkdir -p //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir' and everything just works fine! However, `mkdir -p \\\\machine\\share\\path' fails, because coreutils expects Unix path names, not Windows style. So it is probably worth rewording this FAQ to point out why using \ doesn't always do what the user expects. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCl6wD84KuGfSFAYARApsWAJ0Q9pZ38G0lX3K1K06A0Ws6S7vlFQCfXiWK ZemENIv3OlTqm2YZ1ELw/p0= =vfn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
