Re: [MiNT] 'cd' does not like u:

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:02:48 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>
> > In bash cd c: works, but then I would want it to go to the directory it
> > came from on c: (like DOS).
>
> In DOS, changing drive and changing directory are two different things.
> To change to C in DOS, you simply type 'c:', while changing to a
> different directory on the active drive is done by issuing a cd-command.
> You can't really compare this to the unix cd-command.
>
> Jo Even

One of those DOS bugs/oddities.

If you do   cd c:  it will not automatically go to the c root
but to the last folder that was used on c:

I find this annoying.

Since DOS was a copy of CPM it may be a hangover from that.

Peter