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RE: B19 : cd in bash (95)


Only thing wrong there is that it does not say "..." no such file
or directory.  Only Win95/98 understand ... to mean ../.., etc.,
even NT does not do that.

-Peter

Peter A. Vogel
Manager, SW Configuration Management
Chromatic Research, Inc.
http://www.chromatic.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com]On
> Behalf Of Jason Gloudon
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 2:09 PM
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: B19 : cd in bash (95)
>
>
>
> With B19 on Windows 95 cd in bash does unusual things when given directory
> names consisting of 3 or more "." 's .
>
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd ...
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /...
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ cd ....
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ pwd
> /.../....
>
> and so on
>
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