carolus sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 1:05 PM >I didn't realize that the output of dir depended on whether it was >invoked from cygwin or from cmd, and I didn't know about label.exe.
dir does not differ depending on from where it is invoked. Compare the output of the following. In a windows "Command Prompt" window: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\cygwin\bin\dir and c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c dir Or in bash: "$(cygpath -sysdir)"/cmd.exe /c dir and "$(cygpath -sysdir)"/cmd.exe /c "c:\cygwin\bin\dir" The first dir in each pair is a cmd.exe builtin and the second is a cygwin executable. FYI, /bin/ls.exe and /bin/dir.exe are almost identical, differing by 3 bytes. As for label.exe, to know about it, one has be old enough to have run MS-DOS. (Personally, I think that running DESQview386 under DOS 3.3 was better than any version of Windows, just as some people on this list wax nostalgic for B20 and version 1.5.) :-) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
