Windoze Guru, please help

[bloodline]

IS there any way of getting Windoze to accept path names the right way around?

So that:
c:\temp\mystuff\fungame.exe

can be typed:
c:temp/mystuff/fungame.exe

It's just getting on my nerves, that's all :-)

[odin]

Install amithlon? ;-)

[bloodline]

odin wrote:
Install amithlon? ;-)

Hehehe, Legal and moral issues aside... I don't think my boss would be too keen about Amithlon... He freaked out when he saw AROS on half the machines in the office  :-)

[alx]

Swap/turn round the keys? :-)

bloodline wrote:
IS there any way of getting Windoze to accept path names the right way around?

So that:
c:\temp\mystuff\fungame.exe

can be typed:
c:temp/mystuff/fungame.exe

It's just getting on my nerves, that's all :-)

Just install CygWin

You get a nice bash shell and all the GNU tools compiled for Win32.  Bash is far superior to cmd.exe in everyway.  You can even install XFree86 and a GNOME/KDE etc if you so wish!

[Rodney]

bloodline wrote:
IS there any way of getting Windoze to accept path names the right way around?

So that:
c:\temp\mystuff\fungame.exe

can be typed:
c:temp/mystuff/fungame.exe

It's just getting on my nerves, that's all :-)

Im pretty sure windows supports both / and \.

But you have to either have c:\ OR c:/ at the start... where as you typed c:dir/dir... it should have been c:/dir/dir/dir

You can even mix it up a little bit such as c:/dir\dir/dir\dir

Rodney wrote:

bloodline wrote:
IS there any way of getting Windoze to accept path names the right way around?

So that:
c:\temp\mystuff\fungame.exe

can be typed:
c:temp/mystuff/fungame.exe

It's just getting on my nerves, that's all :-)

Im pretty sure windows supports both / and \.

But you have to either have c:\ OR c:/ at the start... where as you typed c:dir/dir... it should have been c:/dir/dir/dir

You can even mix it up a little bit such as c:/dir\dir/dir\dir

Just tried it at work on W2K SP3.  It doesn't support /

[bloodline]

Well, I've never had windows accept  the / in a path name, I think cgwin is the best idea... and since I've just hacked the administrator password on this machine here at work I can now install stuff :-)

bloodline wrote:
Well, I've never had windows accept  the / in a path name, I think cgwin is the best idea... and since I've just hacked the administrator password on this machine here at work I can now install stuff :-)

Which password cracker did you use?

btw. You don't need admin rights to install Cygwin. :-D

[Rodney]

[bloodline]

mdma wrote:

bloodline wrote:
Well, I've never had windows accept  the / in a path name, I think cgwin is the best idea... and since I've just hacked the administrator password on this machine here at work I can now install stuff :-)

Which password cracker did you use?

btw. You don't need admin rights to install Cygwin. :-D

This one: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/

And I need admin rights to take a leak here :-(

Rodney wrote:

mdma wrote:

Rodney wrote:

bloodline wrote:
IS there any way of getting Windoze to accept path names the right way around?

So that:
c:\temp\mystuff\fungame.exe

can be typed:
c:temp/mystuff/fungame.exe

It's just getting on my nerves, that's all :-)

Im pretty sure windows supports both / and \.

But you have to either have c:\ OR c:/ at the start... where as you typed c:dir/dir... it should have been c:/dir/dir/dir

You can even mix it up a little bit such as c:/dir\dir/dir\dir

Just tried it at work on W2K SP3.  It doesn't support /

Strange, works on 98... I've known for quite a while it did it... Maybe they dont support it in 2000 based OSes?

P.S i tried it before i posted it as well

It'll work in the address bar, but not under command.com or cmd.exe shell's

bloodline wrote:

mdma wrote:

bloodline wrote:
Well, I've never had windows accept  the / in a path name, I think cgwin is the best idea... and since I've just hacked the administrator password on this machine here at work I can now install stuff :-)

Which password cracker did you use?

btw. You don't need admin rights to install Cygwin. :-D

This one: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/

And I need admin rights to take a leak here :-(

I know the feeling!

[Casper]

It'll work in the address bar, but not under command.com or cmd.exe shell's

I just tried it in Windows XP Pro and it works in cmd.exe as well as in the address bar.

Casper wrote:

It'll work in the address bar, but not under command.com or cmd.exe shell's

I just tried it in Windows XP Pro and it works in cmd.exe as well as in the address bar.

.... and people slag off Linux for it's non-uniformity between distributions! Oh, the irony! :-)