The reason that it didn't work is that it was looking in "C:/Windows/" for a folder named "Dell"

Given that - you're in    C:\Windows\
                    and          C:\Dell\              exists

You'd need to type:

CD ../Dell   
or 
CD \Dell

If in :                         C:\windows\temp\
you'd need to type    cd ../../dell
or                              cd \dell

".."   refers to the parent directory of the one you are in.
"\"   by itself with CD refers to the root of the current drive.

Win98 COMMAND.COM works the same way - except it won't handle the forward slash. ("/")  and you'll have to use backslash "\" 
I believe this is the same as DOS 6.22.

>>> Michael.Rigby-Jones@bookham.com 02 Jun 08 11:37:06 >>>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Gerhard Fiedler
> Sent: 30 May 2008 17:38
> To: piclist@mit.edu 
> Subject: Re: [EE] Slashes and backslashes in URLs
> 
> Robert Ammerman wrote:
> 
> > In XP Pro:
> 
> FWIW, that's probably "In cmd.exe in XP Pro".  While cmd.exe is the
> default
> shell, there are a few others (not that different from Linux :)
> 
> > dir "c:/temp" -- works
> > cd "c:/temp" -- does not work
> 
> In my cmd.exe (v5.1.2600), I get these results:
> 
> dir c:/temp - doesn't work
> dir "c:/temp" - works
> cd c:/temp - works
> cd "c:/temp" - works
> 
> I assume that's because dir has switches (separated with '/'), while
cd
> doesn't have any. When invoked without the quotes, "/temp" is seen as
an
> invalid switch ("Parameter format not correct").
> 
> Gerhard

Not the cd command only works if you start above your target directory
(root in this case). I get the following which appears to show that a
leading forward slash on a path is ignored, i.e. you can't start from
root using this method.

    C:\>cd "/dell"

    C:\dell>

This appears to work ok, but if I move into a different directory it
breaks:

    C:\>cd windows

    C:\WINDOWS>cd "/dell"
    The system cannot find the path specified.


Regards

Mike

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