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Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:43:15 +0200

On 09 Aug 2002, Chris Game <chrisgame@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> Well, 'ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' works but 'cd 
> "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" '  doesn't! The message comes
> back: bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or
> directory 

Heh? This is something peculiar, because:
--
Eye@morgul ~
$ cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files"

Eye@morgul /cygdrive/c/Program Files
$ 
--

although
--
Eye@morgul ~
$ cd /cygdr<tab>
--
doesn't do what one might expect (i.e. it does not seem to try 
to complete the line).

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