On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:03:30 -0600, Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:21:51 -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > In fact, using win98se; > c:\WINDOWS>a: <enter> => a:\ > a:\cd c:\home <enter> => a:\ > a:\c: <enter> => c:\home > > thus you have changed the working directory in the other drive without > changing your current position. The point was it doesn't change the current working directory when you specify a different drive, unless you give it an extra switch. It's kind of a pain for scripting (at least for someone used to the unix change dir). > >The fact that you require a *nix shell (cygwin) on your windoze box is > >very telling. Umm, I wrote the cygwin part... And yes I use cygwin, at work where I must use Windows but it has sucky equivalents (if any) for putting together throw away scripts (which I often need to write). Please, let's put this love fest to rest. Spaces are legal in filenames, it sucks for shell scripts, but lusers like them, so we [programmers, script writers, etc.] *must* deal with it. -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]>
