Windows vs. Linux
Bryan Olson
fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Fri Aug 4 04:43:42 EDT 2006
Duncan Booth wrote:
> Bryan Olson wrote:
>
>> Duncan Booth wrote:
>>> bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> >From a WinXP command prompt:
>>>>
>>>> C:\>
>>>> C:\>cd /windows/system32
>>>>
>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not from my Windows XP command prompt it doesn't. Do you have anything
>>> strange installed on your system?
>> Tons of strange stuff, yes, but I just tried it on a couple
>> machines on display at BestBuy, and it worked as I showed it.
>> Maybe a recent change.
>>
> As other postings to this thread have shown it is simply that Windows is
> taking the forward slash as introducing an option and then ignoring it
> entirely if the next letter doesn't match one of the options it knows
> about.
Not quite. The first slash is ambiguous and apparently ignored,
but latter slashes are taken as a path separators.
Have you determined why it didn't work on your XP box as it did
on mine and on the machines at BestBuy?
--
--Bryan
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