From: smueller AT MICROSOFT DOT com (Stephan Mueller) Subject: RE: Buglist 7 Apr 1997 12:45:41 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9106B0327B3ACF11ACEF00805FD47A0B028714FD.cygnus.gnu-win32@RED-67-MSG.dns.microsoft.com> Original-To: "'Jim Balter'" , dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Cc: iverson AT cisco DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.8) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On NT, what Jim says is correct. The 'multi-dot' paths being discussed are probably a special bonus feature (ahem) of the DOS and Windows 95 command.com shells. In a Windows 95 command.com box, a reference to a directory name consisting of n dots means the n-1st parent directory. Thus cd ... is equivalent to cd ..\.. It is interesting that this notation works with non-command.com exes as well, so it may be that the Win95 implementation of Win32 generally supports this. stephan(); > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Balter [SMTP:jqb AT netcom DOT com] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 1997 7:10 PM > To: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de > Cc: iverson AT cisco DOT com; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: Buglist > > dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de wrote: > > > > Hi Tim, you wrote: > > > > : . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths > > : (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource). > > > > What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and .. > > Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT. > > Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of . > and .., are illegal. This is along with a number of other > illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as > mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the > "con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from > some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles. > > -- > > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".