Opening "folder" in "find in files" displays a backslash as the root instead
of a forward slash. Picky, but after all the discussion on everything going
to forward slashes.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Mark Niemiec <[email protected]> wrote:

> David Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tried this on Win7 and got this result:
> >
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
> > Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > C:\Users\me>dir c:\\foo\bar
> > The network location cannot be reached. For information about network
> > troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
> >
> > The response is probably dependent on your system settings.
>
> On DOS ever since around version 3.0 or 3.1, a leading \\
> has indicated a network pathname, somewhat like the // at the start of
> URLs.
> So, you can type "dir \\machinename\sharename\[subdirectory]" in a
> command prompt
> to access directories anywhere on your local network.
> This same mechanism can be used to any OS APIs, and the J APIs accept it
> (with both \\ and //)
>
> -- Mark D. Niemiec <[email protected]>
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