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Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box


On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it 
> could not find the file.
> 
> cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2

Actually we don't expect this to work.  The DOS notion of a drive relative
working directory isn't supported by Cygwin.  You should rather use POSIX
paths anyway (cmp /cygdrive/d/Data/file1 /cygdrive/e/file2).


Corinna

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