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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:24:44PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:40:45PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>Cygwin tries real hard to hide dos-isms, not sure if it would be OK to
>>have both path separators.
>
>The point of using ; as I understand it is that : is for indicating
>drive letters.  Unless Cygwin hides drive letters entirely, will :
>really work as a path separator?

Cygwin hides drive letters as much as possible.  You can't *create* a
file with a colon in it but other than a cygwin user shouldn't have to
worry about 'a:' stuff.  It uses ':' for its path separator, just like
unix.  Using anything else would confuse it.

cgf
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