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Subject: Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box
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Hi,

Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but 
>>> it could not find the file.
>>>
>>> cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2
>>
>> Actually we don't expect this to work.  The DOS notion of a drive 
>> relative
> 
> it works perfectly even if the back slash is in the path.
> 
wrong English: just delete the 'even'.

Erich

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