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Re: cd behavior in tcsh with non-posix style paths
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:24:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: cd behavior in tcsh with non-posix style paths
- References: <sc2cb0f7.094@nrcgwia.nrc.gov>
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:50:34PM -0500, Christopher Murray wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Pardon my ignorance on this, but I have searched the mailing list archives on this (as well as read the user guide to look for guidance) but this problem doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere.
>
> I have been using tcsh and cygwin for a long time now (since the b19 days) and have pretty much gotten used to navigating the directories on my hard drive using the non-posix style paths (i.e. cd d:/some_dir). Over the past several months I have been living with the following behavior but I've reached a point where I either track this sucker down, or change my way of working:
Change your way of working. Use POSIX paths. Paths not beginning
with '/' are treated relative paths and tcsh thinks it's doing
clever things with these paths.
Corinna
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