From: Isaac Kohn <ikohn@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu>
To: Fabio Vignoli <bafio@dist.unige.it>
Cc: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden <janjaap@Wit381304.student.utwente.nl>,
GNU-Win32 list <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>,
Colin Peters <colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!!
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980128230725.21256F-100000@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980128150708.11882A-100000@gort>
> Just to joke:
> try in a MSDOS shell on windows NT : cd Program Files (it works)
> cd "Program Files" (it works)
> dir Program Files (DOES NOT WORK!!!)
> dir "Program Files" (it works)
> Does anybody can tell me why?
I assume the reason is that 'cd' never takes more than one arg, namely,
the directory to change to -- whereas dir can take many options and
switches and whatnot. Because of this, cd knows that everything on the
command line is a directory name and it can allow this sort of thing --
whereas dir cannot allow this because it needs to look for other
arguments.
regards,
isaac
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-28 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-18 16:07 [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolchain available Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
1998-01-20 14:58 ` Paul Garceau
1998-01-24 15:34 ` Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
1998-01-27 2:27 ` Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!! Fabio Vignoli
1998-01-27 8:52 ` Mumit Khan
1998-01-27 16:21 ` Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
1998-01-28 0:46 ` Mikey
1998-01-28 14:54 ` Fabio Vignoli
1998-01-28 21:10 ` Isaac Kohn [this message]
1998-01-29 4:47 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
1998-01-27 5:51 Earnie Boyd
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.980128215032.3179A-100000@zoo-station.student.utwente.nl>
1998-01-28 14:54 ` Mikey
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.980128204057.2538A-100000@zoo-station.student.utwente.nl>
1998-01-28 15:02 ` Mikey
1998-01-31 5:38 ` Tomas Fasth
1998-01-28 22:17 Colin Peters
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