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From: jrc@hpdml93.HP.COM (Jim Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Micro-Emacs & PC Lan 1.30 Conflict?
Message-ID: <14950001@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 89 05:16:46 GMT
References: <1989Nov16.153204.10926@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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Emacs is passing a pathname of the form "\\etc" to DOS.  The redirector
interprets names like "\\server\resource" to be network names as part
of something called the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) which was not
well documented in DOS but appears all over the place in OS/2.

Jim Conrad
jrc@hpbsrl