[REBOL] Re: Network path
From: james:mustard at: 21-Apr-2002 16:51
Alessandro Manotti wrote
> mhm... I think you are right. Infact, in windows, CD command cannot change
> dir directly from a drive to another one (but change directly in "hide"
> mode...):
short answer - windows CAN change directly but you need to use the /d
parameter as in:
cd /d drive:\path
> as you can see, to change a drive, in windows I must type the drive letter
> (without CD command) but CD command functioned! Infact, after I run CD
> command I don't see anything, but if I type drive letter, I discover that
my
> current directory is the directory given to CD command!
>
> Sometimes DOS & Windows are very funny....
If you type cd /? you will see why Windows behaves like this - Windows has
the ability to hold a current directory for each drive.
In the pre-GUI world this was often seen as advantageous for quickly
switching file locations and doing various file ops with the drive:
parameter.
Of course no one uses the commandline in Windows any more ... do they? :-)
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C:\>cd /?
Displays the name of or changes the current directory.
CHDIR [/D] [drive:][path]
CHDIR [..]
CD [/D] [drive:][path]
CD [..]
.. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory.
Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive.
Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory.
Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current
directory for a drive.
If Command Extensions are enabled CHDIR changes as follows:
The current directory string is converted to use the same case as
the on disk names. So CD C:\TEMP would actually set the current
directory to C:\Temp if that is the case on disk.
CHDIR command does not treat spaces as delimiters, so it is possible to
CD into a subdirectory name that contains a space without surrounding
the name with quotes. For example:
cd \winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu
is the same as:
cd "\winnt\profiles\username\programs\start menu"
which is what you would have to type if extensions were disabled.
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James.
