Re: [Mingw-users] KSH on MinGW ( FAQ Project ??)

[Jeff S. <jef...@co...>]

"John van V." wrote:
> UWIN takes the step of dropping you into an artificial FS, where c: becomes /c/

Not artificial at all.  Consider Microsoft's own posix subsystem, in which C:\
and D:\ become //C/ and //D/.

The fact is too many posix utilities break on DOS-ish drive letters, by assuming
all absolute paths begin with '/'.

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Jeff Sturm
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