On 5/27/05, Eric Blake wrote: > Therefore, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 is out of date, and we 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.
OK, I'll update it. -- 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/