All through Win 9x, I have been able to name folders, say,
VBS&BAT, and CD and DIR them from the DOS prompt. My book on
XP (Windows XP in a Nutshell, O'Reilly) says that ampersand
is still a legal character in a file name, and in W2K and XP
I can create a folder named VBS&BAT from Explorer, and open
it there, but I cannot CD to it or get a DIR listing of it
from the cmd prompt. In fact, I cannot reference it in 9x
using cmd.exe. What on earth is going on?
Can anyone point me to a site or list (other than
Microsludge's own, which is about nothing but Vista
nowadays, and anyway you have to use IE to go there) where
this kind of thing is discussed with both technical acumen
and reasonable grammar? I simply cannot accept the technical
expertise of people who cannot spell the simplest words and
don't know how to construct, punctuate or capitalize a
simple sentence. We all make typos, but some of the tech
sites I have looked at looked as if they had been written by
kindergarteners.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx