From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Changing directories in BASH
Date: 28 Nov 1996 01:24:13 GMT
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[The tail of my article was cut off by the news reader.  Here's it again.]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in article
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961127081248 DOT 5811A-100000 AT is>...
> 
> 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?
> 
[I posted a false alarm message yesterday regarding bash "cd" command.  My
problem was caused by a recursive key macro in .inputrc, which I have
played with but forgot about when I had the problem.]

I had experimented with bash on Windows 3.1[1] and Windows 95 machines. 
Here's some findings:
1.  bash cannot be installed as a DOS shell.
2.  On DOS 6.2 machines, running bash inside COMMAND.COM eats a
considerable amount of DOS memory.  On Windows 95 machines this is not a
problem.
3.  "cd //c/program\ files" and "cd //c/progra~1" both get me into the
"Program Files" directory, and set the PWD respectively.
4.  Filename completion does not work with "//c/..." style files.
5.  Windows 3.1 won't start inside bash.
6.  bash hangs after certain commands when started from inside Windows 3.1
.

Now if only someone can tell me how to bind the arrow keys to the bash
history commands, I'd post the nifty bash Icon I draw yesterday!!!

-- 
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com