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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov>
Subject: Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:04:57 -0400
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> mriding AT l-mrider-i ~
> $ cd c:
> 
> mriding AT l-mrider-i /cygdrive/c
> $ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

WAG:  if you run 'cd /cygdrive/c' instead of 'cd c:', does the problem go
away?

The shell obviously is interpreting c: as /cygdrive/c in your shell prompt,
but maybe it's storing c: instead of /cygdrive/c as the current directory,
and choking on that.


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