On May 29 13:03, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> > >>I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it > >>could not find the file. > >> > >>cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 > > > >Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative > > it works perfectly even if the back slash is in the path.
Sure. The backslash makes the path absolute instead of relative to the drive's cwd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
