Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:03:52 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
> 
> >Actually, Windows treats both flavors or slashes the same, so whatever
> magic happens with \\foo\bar will also happen with //foo/bar.  Try it.
> (If you try this from the cmd prompt, you will probably need to put
> the file name in quotes, because cmd treats / as an option leader.)
> 
> 
> I respectfully disagree:
> 
> 
> C:\Temp>cd "//"
> 
> C:\Temp>cd "\\"
> '\\'
> CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.

I said "Windows" not "cmd".  The response from cmd is quite
self-explanatory.  (Hint: try some other command, not "cd".)