cd command doesn't work

[David Feustel]

Just for the record, I've been using the MKS version of ksh since 1982
on dos, windows, os2, sunos,  nt4, windows 2000, and (although not recently)
even ATT ksh. I have almost no experience with csh, bash and not much
with sh. I've even got FreeBSD running on a VMWare virtual machine now.
But I am completely new to Cygwin and it will probably take me a while to
get used to the Windows-induced ideosyncracies in that package.
Please bear with me and I may be able to contribute something useful in a
little while.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <Cygwin@Cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: cd command doesn't work


> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:02:12AM +0100, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> >On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:11:41 EST
> >Brian Keener <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote:
> >
> >> David Feustel wrote:
> >> > OK. Are any of  cd f:budne or cd f:/budne incorrect in ksh?
> >>
> >> Still not getting it huh,  F: is a windows type syntax - you are using
a Unix
> >> like environment with ksh and therefore need Unix like syntax.  Try:
> >
> >Well the odd thing is that "cd c:" works quite well with bash. As well
> >as "cd C:". cd "c:WINNT" or "cd c:/WINNT" do what you can expect. But
> >the same commands in DOS don't do the same thing...
>
> Wow.  I hope you can find some kind of Microsoft support mailing list to
> report this serious oversight.
>
> >Don't habe ksh do test though... how comes that it is a bash
> >functionnality and not a Cygwin?
>
> Probably because Cygwin hates ksh.  I actually heard it muttering the
> other day about this, I think ("Stupid ksh.  I'll show it.  Won't
> understand MS-DOS cd commands.  Heh, heh, heh.").  I think that it has
> something to do with the fact that David Korn is the chief developer for
> U/WIN.  That's the only theory that I can come up with since Cygwin is
> usually pretty objective about its functionality, being a computer
> program and all.
>
> cgf
>
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