Re: [Mingw-users] more than one command in shell

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Renato Silva
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:07:29 -0200
>>
>> 2012/10/25 Eli Zaretskii
>>
>> > > From: Renato Silva
>> > > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:46:35 -0200
>> > >
>> > > Right, and even Windows understands forward slashes, for example:
>> > > cmd.exe> cd ../..
>> >
>> > Only sometimes, so this is unreliable; caveat emptor!  E.g.:
>> >
>> >   D:\usr\eli\data>cd d:/usr
>> >   The system cannot find the path specified.
>> >   D:\usr\eli\data>cd /usr
>> >   The system cannot find the path specified.
>> >
>> > (As you can see from the prompt, that directory does exist.)
>> >
>> > It looks like it only recognizes relative directory names with forward
>> > slashes.
>> >
>> >
>> That seems an specific (and annoying) bug with cmd.exe
>
> What bug are you alluding to?  I see no bug in the examples I posted"
> "cd", the cmd.exe internal command, is not advertised as supporting
> forward slashes in file names.  We are lucky it sometimes work.
>

What Windows OS?  The only failure I could produce on Windows 7 was if
I created a directory named d in the root of the drive.  Now on my
older XP if I cd /somedir then it changes to the directory but if I cd
/somedir/subdir then I get an error that it can't find the path.

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