| I think, that when Hugo mentions "old fashioned drive letters" vs UNC 
| paths, he is referring to a "mapped network drive" as Windows calls 
| it, which is just a shortcut to a UNC path.
| If I understand correctly, Hugo is noticing a speed difference 
| accessing the _same_ file using two different methods. For example, if 
| you have a "U:" drive mapped to "\\server\userspace\username", and try 
| to access U:\example.txt, it will be much faster than accessing \ 
| \server\userspace\username\example.txt.

Ben, you are understanding it correctly. I see that some installer has left
a small 88 byte "log.txt" file in the root of my hard drive. Accessing it
through c:\log.txt is fast, accessing it through \\computer\c$\log.txt is
very slow (locks up gvim for 20 secs).

| Unfortunately, I cannot say that I've noticed this problem, nor do I 
| really understand networking in Windows very well, so I won't be of 
| much help.

Well, it would be helpful if other Windows user could confirm that this
problem exist, or identify if it could be related to my setup(s).

:)

Cheers,
Hugo



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