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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: bloodline on June 04, 2003, 11:16:28 AM
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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 :-)
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Install amithlon? ;-)
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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 :-)
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Swap/turn round the keys? :-)
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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 (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/index.html)
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!
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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
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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 /
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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 :-)
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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
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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 :-(
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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
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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!
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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.
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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! :-)