Windows vs. Linux

[Bryan Olson]

Christopher Weimann wrote:
> On 08/02/2006-08:06AM, bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com wrote:
>> From a WinXP command prompt:
>>
>>     C:\>
>>     C:\>cd /windows/system32
>>
>>     C:\WINDOWS\system32>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> This doesn't work the way you think it does.
> 
> C:\>cd /windows
> 
> C:\WINDOWS>cd /system32
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd /windows
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> 
> It IGNORES a leading / char.

Ah, yes, I see.

As Gerhard Fiedler pointed out, they use '/' elsewhere on
command lines to introduce options, so it could be ambiguous as
the first character of a path name.


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--Bryan