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

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:46:32 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <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?

XPSP3.  I now tried on Windows 7, and there it does work with absolute
directory names as well.

There's something to learn every day.