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'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
