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From: "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com>
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Subject: cd /d/somedir  fails, but  cd /d; cd somedir  works
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:52:10 -0400
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I can cd to a drive other than C: in two steps, as follows:
  cd /d
  cd somedir

This assumes I have earlier done, in a DOS box: 
  cd /
  mkdir d
  mount d:\ /d

But I cannot do this in one step i.e. 
  cd /d/somedir 
fails with the error message:
  bash: cd: /d/somedir: No such file or directory
Why?

I can do it in one step using the clunky syntax 
  cd /cygdrive/d/somedir

Is there a short alias for cygdrive?

In some releases of cygwin I could say 
  cd //d/somedir
which is reasonable.
But I heard that this syntax is being deprecated.
Why?

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