From:	pvogel AT chromatic DOT com (Peter A. Vogel)
Subject:	RE: B19 : cd in bash (95)
23 Sep 1998 22:21:55 -0700 :
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To:	"Jason Gloudon" <jgloudon AT bbn DOT com>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Only thing wrong there is that it does not say "..." no such file
or directory.  Only Win95/98 understand ... to mean ../.., etc.,
even NT does not do that.

-Peter

Peter A. Vogel
Manager, SW Configuration Management
Chromatic Research, Inc.
http://www.chromatic.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
> Behalf Of Jason Gloudon
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 2:09 PM
> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: B19 : cd in bash (95)
>
>
>
> With B19 on Windows 95 cd in bash does unusual things when given directory
> names consisting of 3 or more "." 's .
>
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd ...
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /...
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd ....
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /.../....
>
> and so on
>
> --
> Jason Gloudon
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