Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How to cd to non-8.3 dirs in Win2K?

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:59:53 +0930 (CST)
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 gharris@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > However, I keep running into problems with 8,3 directory names.
> > 
> > For example, cd ethereal-0.9.4 tells me that it is an Invalid directory.
> 
> That's odd.  I've done "cd"s, from the standard command prompt, to non-8.3 
> directories on both NT 4.0 and NT 5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows 2000.
> 
> I could imagine Windows OT (95, 98, Me) having problems with that (although I 
> could also imagine the Windows OT command interpreter *not* having problems 
> with that), but I'd be really surprised if Windows NT (NT 3.x, NT 4.0, W2K, 
> WXP, W.NETServer) having problems with that.

Yes, I was surprised too, since Win9X allows you to put quotes around and 
it works.
 
> Perhaps there's some other problem with that directory?
 
I fixed the problem for now using mangled names :-(

My next problem is that nmake says that win32.mak can't be found :-(
 
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxx, 
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