From: pvogel@chromatic.com (Peter A. Vogel) Subject: RE: B19 : cd in bash (95) 23 Sep 1998 22:21:55 -0700 Message-ID: <001b01bde700$e15b1160$3565a8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@dolphin.chromatic.com> References: <3.0.1.32.19980922170852.006af640@manitoba.bbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jason Gloudon" , Only thing wrong there is that it does not say "..." no such file or directory. Only Win95/98 understand ... to mean ../.., etc., even NT does not do that. -Peter Peter A. Vogel Manager, SW Configuration Management Chromatic Research, Inc. http://www.chromatic.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com]On > Behalf Of Jason Gloudon > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 2:09 PM > To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Subject: B19 : cd in bash (95) > > > > With B19 on Windows 95 cd in bash does unusual things when given directory > names consisting of 3 or more "." 's . > > BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd > / > BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd ... > BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd > /... > BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd .... > BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd > /.../.... > > and so on > > -- > Jason Gloudon > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".