Problem connecting to Winders network

Matthew Carpenter matt
Thu May 12 05:35:08 PDT 2005


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David Bandel wrote:

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> In all OS except Windoze, space/tab/newline == argument separator.
> I have no idea how Windoze knows that cd.. (not there are no
> spaces) knows that means go up a directory as opposed to being a
> command name that contains two dots.

That's because the "." is the holy cow in Microsoft-land, not the space.
(holy cow as an Indian reference, ie.  treat it special...  :)

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