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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller AT microsoft DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Treatment of x:path again
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:45:20 -0700
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While it's true that you can ask cmd.exe for the current directory by using
something like echo %CD%, note that this is a pseudo-variable at best.  It's
not found in older versions of cmd.exe (NT4SP3 or thereabouts being required
as a minimum) and it's clearly not a real variable:  set without arguments
won't list it, and set cd=asdf will simply set a real variable to the value
asdf, and will have no effect on your current directory.

Or are you referring to something else?

stephan();


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:37 PM
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again


On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:31:19AM +0200, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
>|> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path'
>|> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things?  cygwin has never
>|> kept track of the current directory of other drives.
>
>FWIW, it seems this isn't even possible under Win32.  Based on MSDN docs
>it sounds like Win32 maintains only one current directory and really
>knows nothing about disk drives in that context.  It is only cmd.exe
>that maintains an illusion of a current directory for all the drives on
>Windows NT and 2000. 

NT stores the current directory in environment variables, actually.  Windows
9x
seems to store the information at the OS level.

cgf

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