Windows vs. Linux

[Bryan Olson]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> Bryan Olson wrote:
> 
>> Duncan Booth wrote:
>>> bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> >From a WinXP command prompt:
>>>>
>>>>     C:\>
>>>>     C:\>cd /windows/system32
>>>>
>>>>     C:\WINDOWS\system32>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not from my Windows XP command prompt it doesn't. Do you have anything 
>>> strange installed on your system?

>> Tons of strange stuff, yes, but I just tried it on a couple
>> machines on display at BestBuy, and it worked as I showed it.
>> Maybe a recent change.
>>
> As other postings to this thread have shown it is simply that Windows is 
> taking the forward slash as introducing an option and then ignoring it 
> entirely if the next letter doesn't match one of the options it knows 
> about.

Not quite. The first slash is ambiguous and apparently ignored,
but latter slashes are taken as a path separators.

Have you determined why it didn't work on your XP box as it did
on mine and on the machines at BestBuy?


-- 
--Bryan