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   Mr. Man-wai Chang to Bill Powell   
   Re: Mapping a folder in a device to a dr   
   25 Sep 24 18:25:13   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.msdos.batch.nt   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 25/9/2024 7:09 am, Bill Powell wrote:   
   > On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:51:28 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's actually surprisingly shocking that not only is "DavWWWRoot"   
   >> universally used by all WebDav servers (AFAIK), but NONE of them seem to   
   >> tell you that. WTF?   
   >   
   > The reason is that DavWWWRoot has absolutely nothing to do with Android.   
   >   
   > Nor does DavWWWRoot have anything to do with the Android Webdav server APK.   
   > You could grep Android Webdave server source code & you'd never find it.   
   > ....   
   > So if you knew Windows like everyone else does, you'd have known that the   
   > reason it's not mentioned anywhere in your Android documentation is that   
   > it's a common Windows variable (much like %Path% & %Comspec% are).   
      
      
   Well... I just don't understand why the Command Prompt cannot do   
   whatever File Explorer is doing, including merely a drive letter for a   
   folder visible to File Explorer via a command. Maybe Powershell is the   
   new hope? I dunno....   
      
   It's unrelated to Android nor iOS. :)   
      
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