From: ikohn AT vertex DOT ucls DOT uchicago DOT edu (Isaac Kohn)
Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!!
29 Jan 1998 04:33:44 -0800
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To: Fabio Vignoli <bafio AT dist DOT unige DOT it>
Cc: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden <janjaap AT Wit381304 DOT student DOT utwente DOT nl>,
        GNU-Win32 list <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        Colin Peters <colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp>

> Just to joke:
> try in a MSDOS shell on windows NT : cd Program Files (it works) 
>                                      cd "Program Files" (it works)
>                                      dir Program Files (DOES NOT WORK!!!)
>                                      dir "Program Files" (it works)
> Does anybody can tell me why?

I assume the reason is that 'cd' never takes more than one arg, namely,
the directory to change to -- whereas dir can take many options and
switches and whatnot.  Because of this, cd knows that everything on the
command line is a directory name and it can allow this sort of thing --
whereas dir cannot allow this because it needs to look for other
arguments.

regards,
isaac

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