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Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:53:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box
- References: <4658FFCF.2030401@pacific.net.sg>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it
> could not find the file.
>
> cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2
Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative
working directory isn't supported by Cygwin. You should rather use POSIX
paths anyway (cmp /cygdrive/d/Data/file1 /cygdrive/e/file2).
Corinna
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