Windows vs. Linux

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-08-02 13:24:10, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Change Directory may work... but
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Lee Bieber>cd c:\
> 
> C:\>cd /windows/system32
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>cd c:\
> 
> C:\>dir /windows/system32
> Parameter format not correct - "windows".

Since '/' is used as standard command line parameter separator, any command
that uses standard Windows command line parameters can't accept a path with
'/' as argument; it wouldn't know how to differentiate between a path
element and an argument. Try 

C:\>dir "/windows/system32"


That was one of the original reasons for using backslashes as path
separator: the existing code base that used the slash as command line
argument separator. 

Gerhard