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

[Renato S. <br....@gm...>]

2012/10/26 Renato Silva <br....@gm...>

> 2012/10/26 Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...>
>
>>  > 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.
>>
>
> It should either support or not support, it shouldn't work sometimes at
> arbitrary situations.
>
>
>>  > since it seems to work only if you run cd from drive root.
>>
>> What "seems to work only if you run cd from drive root"?  Can you show
>> an example of what works and what doesn't work?
>>
>
> Cd with forward slashes, it seems to work fine in Windows 7 but not in XP,
> example:
>
> C:\Usuários> cd "C:/Programas/MinGW"
>
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> C:\Usuários> cd C:\
> C:\> cd "C:/Programas/MinGW"
> C:\Programas\MinGW>
>
>
>>
>> > NTFS and Windows API, however, should handle them ok.
>>
>> If you mean forward slashes, yes.  But the problem is, some commands
>> interpret their arguments before passing them to the APIs.  E.g., "cd"
>> supports options, like "/d", so it looks at its argument to see if
>> these switches are specified.
>>
>
> Then that's a problem specific to the program you're trying to use. I mean
> when writing programs and scripts themselves, for example you should be
> able to use forward slashes just fine in Python or Ruby scripts, or your
> MinGW programs, becasue they won't use the cd command or whatever, but the
> Windows API (indirectly through MSVCRT). Of course it doesn't eliminate the
> drive letter problem, but it should avoid lot of trouble already on
> relative paths and if you attach a prefix with different roots between
> Windows and unixes.


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