Guest Natka Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 hi... when i open c/p...i have line c:\documents and settings\boss my question is: what command should i type in to get to C:\ skipping this "documents and setting" thank you natka i try 2dots (..) didtnt works
Guest David Webb Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Command prompt..line cd\ "Natka" <natka@heaven.org> wrote in message news:g0orb4h81vampa478lale37im44gksup59@4ax.com... > hi... > when i open c/p...i have line > c:\documents and settings\boss > my question is: > what command should i type in to get to C:\ > skipping this "documents and setting" > thank you > natka > i try 2dots (..) didtnt works
Guest Natka Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Command prompt..line On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:10:08 -0400, "David Webb" <dwebb211@earthling.net> wrote: >cd\ > >"Natka" <natka@heaven.org> wrote in message >news:g0orb4h81vampa478lale37im44gksup59@4ax.com... >> hi... >> when i open c/p...i have line >> c:\documents and settings\boss >> my question is: >> what command should i type in to get to C:\ >> skipping this "documents and setting" >> thank you >> natka >> i try 2dots (..) didtnt works > Thank you so much.. bestr regards natka
Guest Big_Al Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Command prompt..line David Webb wrote: > cd\ > > "Natka" <natka@heaven.org> wrote in message > news:g0orb4h81vampa478lale37im44gksup59@4ax.com... >> hi... >> when i open c/p...i have line >> c:\documents and settings\boss >> my question is: >> what command should i type in to get to C:\ >> skipping this "documents and setting" >> thank you >> natka >> i try 2dots (..) didtnt works > > and cd .. changes one directly up. in your case C:\documents and settings PS. I'd get in the habit of putting spaces between CD and the folder, so its: cd \ But that's just me. Have fun.
Guest Alec S. Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Command prompt..line Big_Al wrote (in news:uj6WGZWDJHA.3576@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl): > David Webb wrote: > > cd\ > > PS. I'd get in the habit of putting spaces between CD and the folder, > so its: > cd \ Why? Won’t this work? :P C:\>cdwindows But seriously, I often don’t add a spaces for things that don’t start with an alphanumeric character: > dir\/s/a > copy d:\blah/y > start. > start..\blah But of course not: > foobar-? > baz--help > dir"foo bar*" -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
Guest Alec S. Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Command prompt..line Natka wrote (in news:g0orb4h81vampa478lale37im44gksup59@4ax.com): > when i open c/p...i have line > c:\documents and settings\boss > my question is: > what command should i type in to get to C:\ > skipping this "documents and setting" > i try 2dots (..) didtnt works That’s because one dot means current directory, two dots means one level back. In past versions of Windows you could use any number of dots (eg cd .... to go back three levels), but that doesn’t work anymore, you have to put in slashes (eg cd ..\..\..) One question out of curiosity though: if you aren’t familiar with the change-directory command (a fairly basic one), what task are you trying to perform with the command prompt? Doing anything else is even more complex. Are you just trying to learn it? -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
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