Re^4: moving from mac to PC -- win internal commands

I suspect that this is related to internal commands infact when you say individual program i suspect that internal commands do not like slashes, while all other ones accept both slashes and backslashes.

See ss64.com where internal commands have a dot after the name.

Given that dir and type are internal commands and ls (UnxUtils version) and icacls are not, you can see the difference:

# dir not OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `dir $p
+ath`;print qq(@dirs)"
Formato del parametro non corretto - "scripts".

# ls OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `ls $pa
+th`;print qq(@dirs)"
# OK long output omitted

#type not OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized/zen-small.pl';my @d
+irs = `type $path`; print qq(@dirs)"
c:/scripts/resized/zen-small.pl not found

# icacls OK
perl -wMstrict -le "my $path = 'c:/scripts/resized';my @dirs = `icacls
+ $path`;print @dirs"
c:/scripts/resized BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F)
                   BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
                   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F)
                   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
                   BUILTIN\Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(RX)
                   NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(M)
                   NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)

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is fun also to see different languages for errors issued (italian coming from the OS and english).

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Re^5: moving from mac to PC -- win internal commands by RonW (Parson) on Oct 28, 2016 at 18:19 UTC
I suspect that this is related to internal commands infact when you say individual program i suspect that internal commands do not like slashes, while all other ones accept both slashes and backslashes. Actually, some MSWindows-centric programs also don't accept / in file paths. For example, last time I used Beyond Compare's CLI, it choked on / even when it was a path like "c:/path/to/file.ext". BTW, in MS-DOS, there was system call to change the "option switch" character. I don't remember what it was, but back when I had to use Win95, one of my mentors told me about it. Made the Win95 experience tolerable for me. Later, I discovered Cygwin.	[reply]
Re^6: moving from mac to PC -- win internal commands by afoken (Chancellor) on Oct 29, 2016 at 14:46 UTC
in MS-DOS, there was system call to change the "option switch" character. I don't remember what it was API: int 0x21, ax=0x3700 = Get Switch Character, int 0x21, ax=0x3701 = Set Switch Character. Both available since MS-DOS 2.0, ignored since MS-DOS 4.01, changed to always return "/" since MS-DOS 5, DR-DOS 3.41 to 6.0. Anchient DOS versions (MS DOS 2.x and some OEM versions) allowed setting the switch character in config.sys by setting SWITCHAR=x. So yes, you could change the switch character (before MS-DOS 5), but most programs ignored it, and for those few which followed it, you had to rewrite batch files to use your switch character instead of the standard "/". Update to MS-DOS 5.0 would require another rewrite back to "/". Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]