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yuanyun.ken wrote:
> cygwin is great, I like it.
> But when I want to change directory, I have to type 'cd D:/dira/dirb' or 'cd
> D:\\dira\\dirb'.
> This is somewhat inconvenient.

<shameless plug>
You might like MinTTY, which allows you to drag and drop files into it. 
Your example would be inserted as "D:\dira\dirb".
See http://code.google.com/p/mintty
</shameless plug>

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