How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Lev Bishop wrote:
>>> Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
>>> why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
>>> user to specify an additional flag.
>> ...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, 
> 
> I don't think so.  The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u.
> There's no short or long unix path.

Does 'cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' not work on your system? It does here, 
therefore there are indeed "short unix paths" and "long unix paths". (I 
also stated this previously...)

-- 
Matthew
"Nobody expects the traditional Bourne shell!"


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