Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:14:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David May <dmay AT tvi DOT cc DOT nm DOT us>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Changing directories in BASH
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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?