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Re: cd behavior in tcsh with non-posix style paths


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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