X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46D566F8.6020801@byu.net> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:30:48 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Ronald Fischer Subject: Re: [bug?] Directory lister (d) doesn't properly translate drive letters References: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F12A372@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> In-Reply-To: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F12A372@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ronald Fischer on 8/29/2007 4:57 AM: > ~/thome $ d t:/rfischer > /cygdrive/h/thome/t:/rfischer doesn't exist! > ~/thome $ > > While ls seems to understand the notion of t:, d does not. Not necessarily a bug. Using drive letter notation in cygwin is asking for problems, you should instead use /cygdrive/t. The fact that it works for some applications is happenstance, not design. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1Wb484KuGfSFAYARAvgYAJ0YyfH8PeQuJgD7XhKgWDuE1H9iIgCgiZ9/ Xc3l/wxBFdMu1XSZ2JoemW8= =7qD6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/