On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: >>> "\\hostname" is remote path location, I don't think I can use >>> "//hostname" instead, either for cygwin program and especially not for >>> not-cygwin program, can I? (can't check it now) >> >> With Windows, you're free to use either path separator. With Cygwin, >> you're life will be easier if you use '/' though it will accept '\' too if >> properly escaped. > > ok, so it works for paths - but what about other arguments, that are
And even for paths the results might be different - i.e. the program might interpret "//foo" differently than "\\foo" - e.g. as an option. -- Piotr Krukowiecki -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
