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Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box


Hi,

Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote:

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

it works perfectly even if the back slash is in the path.


wrong English: just delete the 'even'.

Erich

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