On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:23:32 +0100 Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 16:14 11/04/2014 +0200, Paul Steyn wrote: > >On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:46:51 +0100 Tom Davies wrote: > >>I'm not sure if you can use > >>cd c: > > > >Yes, you can use that to change directory. > > Er, no: you cannot. Try it and see. > Er, actually, in the context of the question, you can. The question as I understood it wasn't "can you use 'cd c:' to change directory", but rather "can you use 'cd c:\docs' to change directory, or only cd 'docs'". Here's the full original context: > So on the command-line you would do something like > > cd c:/Documents and Settings/Joe B/My Documents/html files > > to get into the right folder and then run the batch file from there. > I'm not sure if you can use > > cd c: > > tbh, i think you have to skip the c: bit and plunge straight into the > rest of it You're right that *on it's own* "cd c:" doesn't change directory, it only shows the current directory of the C drive. Funny quirk of the DOS system... Paul -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
