Re: SixPack mods for Linux users

Dave,

I created a subdir SUBHAL in dir HAL.

C:
CD:\HAL\SUBHAL
C:\HAL\SUBHAL 

C:\HAL
CD SUBHAL
C:\HAL\SUBHAL

C:\HAL
CD ./SUBHAL
C:\HAL        I'm still in C:\HAL

C:\HAL
CD./SUBHAL
C:\HAL        I'm still in c:\HAL

So for me ./ doesn't work even as relative path starting from an existing directory (BTW if I'm in the root directory C:\ the relative path should work anyhow - relative to root directory -).

I thought it might depend of filesystem (my C: partition is FAT32), so I tried in T: disk (a NTFS partition) with the same result: '/' doesn't work......(for me anyhow:-)

Out of curiosity I tried on MS-DOS 6.22 (I must confess I haven't PC-DOS 2.0 anymore (at least not installed on a PC);-) and "./" gives an error message.

Regards

Paul
 
--- In [email protected], "Dave" <dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:
>
> It only appears to be valid in relative paths:-
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings>cd ./waded
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded>cd ./my*
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded\My Documents>cd ./h*
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded\My Documents\HamStuff>cd "/
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded\My Documents\HamStuff>cd "../../..
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings>cd ./waded/my*
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded\My Documents>cd C:/hercules
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\waded\My Documents\Hercules>
> 
> Very odd....
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of paoloG
> > Sent: 17 October 2010 23:52
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [H390-VM] Re: SixPack mods for Linux users
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Herculeans,
> > 
> > I was out for the day and now I'm reading all your opinions.
> > 
> > So this is my *experience* (not opinion...;-)
> > 
> > WIN2K SP4 - CMD box
> > 
> > (in C: I have a directory HAL)
> > 
> > C:
> > CD\HAL
> > C:\HAL    (I am in directory HAL)
> > 
> > C:
> > CD/HAL    Syntax error
> > 
> > C:
> > CD./HAL
> > C:        I'm still in root directory
> > 
> > C:
> > CD ./HAL
> > C:        I'm still in root directory
> > 
> > C:
> > CD C:./HAL
> > C:        I'm still in root directory
> > 
> > Please tell me what I'm supposed to do to get "/" working in Windows...;-)
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Paul
> >