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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box
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On May 29 13:03, 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.

Sure.  The backslash makes the path absolute instead of relative to the
drive's cwd.


Corinna

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