On Apr 14 10:54, Ashley Ward wrote: > 2) The '\' character used in Windows share names is an escape character > to bash -- so the example "mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data" in the > cygwin manual (example 3.10) is misleading. For me, that style of > example gives error messages about "/data", not the Windows share > (actually the cause of the problem), which doesn't help. I do see the > mentions in manual around that point about using the Windows command > shell (presumably with the cygwin bin in the PATH?) and also about > using '/' rather than '\', but it doesn't seem very clear to me -- > perhaps the example could be changed to "mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' > /data"?
Erm... *cough, cough*, you're not a slave of the user manual, right? Why not just try it? Using forward slashes or \\ in bash seems quite natural to me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/