On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, sinck@corp.quepasa.com wrote:
> ...
> You know what really gets my goat about the dumb command prompt under
> windows? 
> 
> cd d:
> cd /foo/bar
> 
> and not
> 
> cd d:/foo/bar

Well just to pick a nit: Win/DOS has a somewhat different concept. 
I.e., each "drive" (filesystem) gets its own "current directory",
and in addition there's the concept of a "current drive".  So that

  cd d:\foo\bar

*is* a legal DOS command, but it sets the current directory on drive d:
to the specified value (without changing the current directory for any
other drives), and

  cd d:\foo\bar
  d:

is equivalent to

  d:
  cd \foo\bar

-- Rod
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