From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: sh.exe 'cd' doesn't understand '//<drive>/path' notation?
6 Aug 1998 13:44:22 -0700 :
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References:	<6zJ-e50KpfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de>
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To:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 11:15 PM 8/5/98 +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
>Hi,
>
>[...]
>>X:\apps\4.0\Cygnus\b19\H-i386-cygwin32\bin>.\sh
>>$ cd //c/temp
>>cd: lstat /c failed
>>
>>Any suggestions?  Is this a bug?  All the other tools seem to support this
>>(including bash).
>
>Don't know, but works here:
>
>Z:\mh>sh
>MIKE-[/home/mh]_$cd //c/tmp
>MIKE-[//c/tmp]_$
>MIKE-[//c/tmp]_$cd //c/temp
>MIKE-[//c/temp]_$
>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jason
>
>Bye.
>Michael.


Is your sh bash or ash?  It works for my sh too but I have sh linked to bash.
If I run ash, I get the same Jason did...


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