Re: [Mingw-users] CreateFileW failure

[Philip B. <ph...@fl...>]

On 6/2/2005, "Egon Andersen" <po...@ta...> wrote:

>Philip Bock wrote:
>[snip]
>> =09char *filename =3D "\\\\?\\UNC\\127.0.0.1\C$\winzip.log";
>
>Shouldn't it be:
>char *filename =3D "\\\\?\\UNC\\127.0.0.1\\C:\\winzip.log";
>
>i.e. \ should be \\ and I expect $ should be :, but the later I'm not
>sure about.

Yes, you're right about the first part. I must have copied something
wrong, because the line I posted originally doesn't even compile. As
for the second part, I'm accessing the local C drive through the hidden
administrative share, which is named C$ (share names ending in $ are
hidden by windows).

>Best regards
>Egon Andersen
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