Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/27/18:17:49
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:02:12AM +0100, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:11:41 EST
>Brian Keener <bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com> wrote:
>
>> David Feustel wrote:
>> > OK. Are any of cd f:budne or cd f:/budne incorrect in ksh?
>>
>> Still not getting it huh, F: is a windows type syntax - you are using a Unix
>> like environment with ksh and therefore need Unix like syntax. Try:
>
>Well the odd thing is that "cd c:" works quite well with bash. As well
>as "cd C:". cd "c:WINNT" or "cd c:/WINNT" do what you can expect. But
>the same commands in DOS don't do the same thing...
Wow. I hope you can find some kind of Microsoft support mailing list to
report this serious oversight.
>Don't habe ksh do test though... how comes that it is a bash
>functionnality and not a Cygwin?
Probably because Cygwin hates ksh. I actually heard it muttering the
other day about this, I think ("Stupid ksh. I'll show it. Won't
understand MS-DOS cd commands. Heh, heh, heh."). I think that it has
something to do with the fact that David Korn is the chief developer for
U/WIN. That's the only theory that I can come up with since Cygwin is
usually pretty objective about its functionality, being a computer
program and all.
cgf
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