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Re: cd command doesn't work


On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:02:12AM +0100, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:11:41 EST
>Brian Keener <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote:
>
>> David Feustel wrote:
>> > OK. Are any of  cd f:budne or cd f:/budne incorrect in ksh?
>> 
>> Still not getting it huh,  F: is a windows type syntax - you are using a Unix 
>> like environment with ksh and therefore need Unix like syntax.  Try:
>
>Well the odd thing is that "cd c:" works quite well with bash. As well
>as "cd C:". cd "c:WINNT" or "cd c:/WINNT" do what you can expect. But
>the same commands in DOS don't do the same thing...

Wow.  I hope you can find some kind of Microsoft support mailing list to
report this serious oversight.

>Don't habe ksh do test though... how comes that it is a bash
>functionnality and not a Cygwin?

Probably because Cygwin hates ksh.  I actually heard it muttering the
other day about this, I think ("Stupid ksh.  I'll show it.  Won't
understand MS-DOS cd commands.  Heh, heh, heh.").  I think that it has
something to do with the fact that David Korn is the chief developer for
U/WIN.  That's the only theory that I can come up with since Cygwin is
usually pretty objective about its functionality, being a computer
program and all.

cgf

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