Re: Windows vs. Linux

On 2006-08-02 13:24:10, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

Change Directory may work... but

C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Lee Bieber>cd c:\

C:\>cd /windows/system32

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>cd c:\

C:\>dir /windows/system32
Parameter format not correct - "windows".

Since '/' is used as standard command line parameter separator, any command
that uses standard Windows command line parameters can't accept a path with
'/' as argument; it wouldn't know how to differentiate between a path
element and an argument. Try

C:\>dir "/windows/system32"


That was one of the original reasons for using backslashes as path
separator: the existing code base that used the slash as command line
argument separator.

Gerhard

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