Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or > > of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not > > complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you > > describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly > > not how it works under other OSes. > > > I'm pretty sure it's a feature of SUSv3... Or one of the other POSIXy > standards. > > However I've been working for hours so my brain is fried and may be spewing > out random recollections '-)
FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD, and neither thinks ' ' is a directory. In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward. -Norton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
