RE: cd problems

[Luke Scharf]

It sounds like you're in Octave rather than in a Unix shell.  My fault
-- I made some assumptions about what was going on.

I hadn't noticed that Octave stays in line-continuation-mode when
there's a blank line.  Learn something every day.  The way to get out of
the "cd \" mess is to just type something on one of the lines and press
enter.

-Luke

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:42, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> 2.1.36, the octave+forge release from Agustin Barto:
> 
> http://www.efn.uncor.edu/departamentos/computacion/materias/informatica/software/octave-2.1.36-2002121500.exe
> 
> 
> echo $SHELL returns nothing (except help on the echo function).
> 
> The desktop shortcut refers to 
> 
> "C:\Program Files\GNU Octave 2.1.36\bin\run.exe" rxvt.exe --keysym.0xFF50 
> '^a' --keysym.0xFF57 '^e' --keysym.0xFFFF '^f^h' -fn "Lucida Console-12" -tn 
> linux -title "GNU Octave 2.1.36" -geometry 80x25 -sl 400 -sr -e 
> /bin/start_octave.sh"
> 
> 
> So I guess the "shell" here is different (run.exe?).
> 
> Good question.  Agustin?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Scharf [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:38 PM
> To: Julian DeMarchi
> Cc: Bart Benthul; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: cd problems
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:03, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> > |> On the topic you raise, though, watch out for backslashes native to
> > |> Windows.  For example (for reasons I do not know), if you were to type
> > |> 
> > |>  cd \
> > |> 
> > |
> > |If you type "cd \" and press enter twice, you will execute the
> > |command "cd" with no arguments and return to a normal prompt.
> > 
> > Hmm.  I hit Enter several times without success.  ^c, ^d, and ^z also 
> > didn't work.
> 
> It works both on my cygwin machine and on my Linux machine.  What shell
> are you running?  Both of the machines I tried this on are using bash.
> 
> The command "echo $SHELL" will tell you what shell you're running.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Luke
> 
> 
> 
> 
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