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Re: how to change dir

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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>  
>>
>> cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work'
>>
>>    
> Note that this will give you a warning in Cygwin 1.7 since you are using
> non-POSIX path names.
>
>  
I do hope there will be an option with an alternative environment
variable setting that will direct the warning to /dev/null ?

The credo of Cygwin, it seems to me, has always been:

Give Windoze users a shot at the richness and wisdom of GNU/UNIX without
making their lives any more miserable than MBRH (Mr. Bill and the
Redmond Hordes) has already done.

NOT POSIXlee, yours ;-)

Lee Rothstein

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