Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Luke Vanderfluit wrote: > long saga about windows Perhaps we're having a terminology problem here. Are you typing (literally) the string "cd c:\" as the entire input to bash? If so, you need to be aware that all Unix-y shells do *escape processing* using "\", so you have to double them up if

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-19 Thread zzapper
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:48:32 +1030, wrote: >Hi. > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: >> >> > >I will study the documentation but meanwhile might need some quick help >here and there. > Help starts here http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: I'm wondering: I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root directory? Cygwin emu

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: >I'm wondering: >I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. >Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ > >Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root >directory? Cygwin emulates linux so you shouldn't be using