Duncan Booth wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: > >> Duncan Booth wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
