Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:34:53 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: RHIDE crashes without traceback. [solved!]
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Johan Venter wrote:

> <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote in message news:B0000098901 AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv...
> > PS. Second identical bug this week. First were in collect2 (gcc295X.zip)
> 
> Yes, this is beginning to get scary. Is it a windows bug?

It's not a bug, it's a ``feature'' ;-).

When Windows sees a name with two leading backslashes, it thinks it might 
be a UNC (like \\SERVER\SHARE\DIR), so it searches the network for the 
server that exports such a share.  What you see is the network time-out.

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