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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.koppe@gmail.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

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