Re: [Mingw-msys] bash 2.05b can't use cd d:/ , only use cd /d

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

Geffrey Zhang wrote, quoting me:
>> What version of msys are you using?  If it's 1.0.10, (which
>> is still the current stable release), where have you obtained
>> bash-2.05? 
>
> the bash 2.05b is obtained from mingw :
> 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/bash-2.05b-MSYS.tar.bz2?download

Ok, I'd expect that to work then, although I haven't actually
found a need to try it.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it;  why
replace something which works, unless you absolutely need some
feature provided by bash-2.05, which isn't in 2.04?

>> Presumably you do actually have a `d:' drive?
>
> No, I only use bash-2.05 replaced with bash-2.04, I don't change
> anything more !

Well, you originally said:
>>> I found bash-2.05 can't use 
>>> cd d:
>>> sh: cd: d:: No such file or directory

If you don't have a `d:' drive, why on earth would you expect
anything else?  There really is `no such file or directory' as
`d:';  bash is only telling you that you can't `cd' to a
directory which doesn't exist, which is quite correct.

> you can test it [the bash-2.05b download].

I just did; it works perfectly for me.

$ mkdir ~/bash-2.05
$ cd ~/bash-2.05
$ tar xjf /d/local/tmp/bash-2.05b-MSYS.tar.bz2
$ cp bin/bash.exe /bin/bash205.exe
$ exec bash205
$ set | grep BASH_VERSION
BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'

$ bash205 --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ cd d:
$ pwd
/d

Regards,
Keith.