Windows vs. Linux

[Duncan Booth]

Bryan Olson wrote:

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

I'm not sure ambiguity enters into it. I think perhaps the bad detection of 
the option happens because the CD command can ignore spaces in its 
argument. Since it is ignoring spaces they don't actually require a space 
after the option strings.

Any other Microsoft commands I try all complain about 'invalid switch'.

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

Simply that I hadn't changed to the root directory first so there was no 
subdirectory named 'windows'.