Eric G. Miller wrote: > Yea, but don't you need a switch to change drives? > > c:\> cd d:\cygwin > c:\> Does not compute... > c:\> d: > d:\> cd cygwin > d:\cygwin> > > Okay, that isn't the real error message... That whole drive letter > thing is way dainbramaged...
The drive letter thing is indeed quite lame, although it probably made better sense in the days of 4 kb RAM on an 8080 processor (MS-DOS inherited, or stole, that design from CP/M, which did indeed run on such limited machines). However, your example is actually wrong. "cd d:\cygwin" is a perfectly legal MS-DOS command; it sets the current working directory for drive D to \cygwin, regardless of what your current drive is. Craig