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Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Lev Bishop wrote: 
Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
user to specify an additional flag.
...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, 

I don't think so.  The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u.
There's no short or long unix path.

Does 'cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' not work on your system? It does here, therefore there are indeed "short unix paths" and "long unix paths". (I also stated this previously...)

--
Matthew
"Nobody expects the traditional Bourne shell!"


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