Christopher Weimann wrote: > On 08/02/2006-08:06AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
