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Date: | Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:19:03 +0000 |
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Subject: | Re: [1.7] Undocumented change in accessing by dos drive letters? |
From: | Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> |
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2009/11/4 Linda Walsh: >> C: and C:\ aren't the same thing in DOS/cmd.exe. C: means the current >> directory of the C drive, whereas C:\ means the root directory of the >> C drive. Within each cmd.exe session, each drive has its own current >> directory. > > --- > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Right. =C2=A0That's a cmd.exe-ism =C2=A0-- As = Christofpher F. says, > it's not been true in Cygwin in a long time (I don't remember it being > true, ever, but I never tried using it to see if it was supported). Fair enough. All the more reason to remove support for "C:" then. Btw, C: still does work for cd, e.g. 'cd C:' or 'cd C:Users', both in bash and in zsh. How come? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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