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Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!!
- To: Fabio Vignoli <bafio at dist dot unige dot it>
- Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!!
- From: Isaac Kohn <ikohn at vertex dot ucls dot uchicago dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:09:33 -0600 (CST)
- 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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