Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/27/01:19:49
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, David May wrote:
> I lost the original message asking help about changing directory into
> the c:\Program Files directory under Windows 95 under bash. The
> only way I could get it to work is to use
> cd /Progra~1.
> Then pwd returns
> /Progra~1
> as the current working directory.
>
> Any ideas?
Since Unix generally doesn't support such directory names, I'd guess
`bash' fails to support them too. Ideas? Get the `bash' sources and fix
this problem. Isn't that what free software is all about--to be able to
fix any problem without waiting for the vendor to get to it?
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