good switch! I used DOS from many years but I never saw that switch! (my inattention!).
I tried "cd/?" and the switch was there! thank you! bye --Alessandro-- -----Messaggio originale----- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di James Marsden Inviato: Sunday, April 21, 2002 6:51 AM A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [REBOL] Re: Network path Alessandro Manotti wrote > mhm... I think you are right. Infact, in windows, CD command cannot change > dir directly from a drive to another one (but change directly in "hide" > mode...): short answer - windows CAN change directly but you need to use the /d parameter as in: cd /d drive:\path > as you can see, to change a drive, in windows I must type the drive letter > (without CD command) but CD command functioned! Infact, after I run CD > command I don't see anything, but if I type drive letter, I discover that my > current directory is the directory given to CD command! > > Sometimes DOS & Windows are very funny.... If you type cd /? you will see why Windows behaves like this - Windows has the ability to hold a current directory for each drive. In the pre-GUI world this was often seen as advantageous for quickly switching file locations and doing various file ops with the drive: parameter. Of course no one uses the commandline in Windows any more ... do they? :-) /--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- C:\>cd /? Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHDIR [/D] [drive:][path] CHDIR [..] CD [/D] [drive:][path] CD [..] .. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory. Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive. Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory. Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current directory for a drive. If Command Extensions are enabled CHDIR changes as follows: The current directory string is converted to use the same case as the on disk names. So CD C:\TEMP would actually set the current directory to C:\Temp if that is the case on disk. CHDIR command does not treat spaces as delimiters, so it is possible to CD into a subdirectory name that contains a space without surrounding the name with quotes. For example: cd \winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu is the same as: cd "\winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu" which is what you would have to type if extensions were disabled. /----------------------------------------------------------------------- James. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes. -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Sai cosa � una "lampada di sale"? scoprilo qui: Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=373&d=21-4 -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
