From: jeffers@redrose.net (David Jeffers) Subject: Re: Bug: 'cd ..' from //a/{subdir} broken 17 Oct 1996 20:10:02 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610172304.QAA20053.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <2663b9f0@softart.com> Original-To: MLDickey@softart.com Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <2663b9f0@softart.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com >>>>> "MLDickey" == MLDickey writes: MLDickey> I've tried several different floppies, and all of MLDickey> them do the same thing. I do not have source to check MLDickey> against. MLDickey> If you 'cd //a' and then 'cd {some subdir}' you MLDickey> cannot 'cd ..' to get back to the parent. It just stays MLDickey> in the current directory. Also, you cannot 'cd //a' to MLDickey> get to the parent, either. You have to change drives MLDickey> first, and then go back to //a. MLDickey> It appears that the current directory state gets MLDickey> mangled with the default directory state on the A: MLDickey> drive. If you have the "mount" command and use it to display your drive paths you will see that "//a" is mountable. This means you can mount //a to a: or even a directory like 'floppy'. For instance I have my cdrom which is normally drive "D:' mounted on 'cdrom' thus if I cd to 'cdrom' it reads my 'd:' drive. Likewise I have "c:\" mounted as "/" or the 'root' drive. Using your tests above I have no problems cd'ing around :) You can view your drive paths in the Registry under 'H_KEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Cygnus Support\Cygwin.dll\setup \b15.0\mount\01 thru 05'. Change the 'native' keys to set-up your drive paths. David Jeffers - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".