[1.7] Undocumented change in accessing by dos drive letters?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/02/2009 01:29 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> I didn't see any documentation in the What's New/What's Changed
> document saying that the following no longer works:
> 		<cmd>  <drive letter>:
> For example:
> 	$ ls C:
> 	ls: cannot access C:: No such file or directory
>
> This had worked fine on earlier versions.
> This has broken several of my shell scripts so I am surprised it isn't
> either documented (if a desired change) or fixed (if a bug).

I agree it's worth documenting.

> Am I missing something?
>
> Note using C:\\ does work.

C:/ also works.

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