[p4] Mapping files to different drives?

Jorg Schaible jorg.schaible at db.com
Tue Jul 4 03:22:19 PDT 2000


>See page 35 of the System Administrator's Guide.

This does not help with applications using drive letters like *they* want.

>>At 06:55 PM 6/28/00, Gregg G. Wonderly wrote:

>> >Root:  null
>> >
>> >View:
>> >       //depot/somepath/...    //cl/d:/work/...
>> >       //depot/anopath/...     //cl/c:/another_work/...
>> >
>> >and similar.
>>
>>Be weary of doing this without some investigation. We found that if you
>>do this, then the path
>>         D:\work\...
>>is distinctly different from
>>         d:\work\...
>>
>>whereas if the drive letter is in the root specification, than that portion
>>of the physical path is case independant.  I am not sure whether to consider
>>this a bug, but some file dialog usage in the Kawa, Java IDE, causes
>>different drive letters to appear in file names.  Thus, the command facilities
>>of Kawa build command lines that don't work for some files.
>>
>>-----
>>gregg at c2-tech.com  (C2 Technologies Inc)
>>
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