cd command doesn't work

[David Feustel]

The cd command works if I exit ksh and run in bash.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: cd command doesn't work


> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:10:46PM -0500, David Feustel wrote:
> >I'm running cygwin 1.0 (cdrom version) on Windows 2000.  from ksh, all
> >attempts to cd to a different drive fail.  The help info says to do cd
> >[/D] drive:path.  No combination that I have tried yet works for me.
> 
> What "help info" are you talking about?  If you say "help cd" you're
> probably getting the Windows help for the command, not the ksh version.
> 
> ksh uses the same mechanism as any other Cygwin tool.  You type cd /usr
> to change to /usr and cd /cygdrive/c/foo to change to the foo directory
> on the c drive.
> 
> >Is cd broken? 
> >Is there a work around?
> 
> Yes.  Use the proper syntax.
> 
> cgf
> 
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