I can tell you that in the Win95/NT command line "dir c:" gives you the contents of the default directory on the C: drive no matter what your current drive or directory is, and "dir c:\" is the only way to always get the root of C:.

You can also change the current directory of a drive without "logging" (as they say) to that drive using something like "cd c:\" (this example changes the C: default dir to the root), after which "dir c:" would be equivalent to "dir c:\".

As to the behaviour changing with the locale of the script, I think that might need a bit more investigation, I've not gone after such a bug but I also haven't notice one in many years of DOS/Win Perling...

Update ...actually confirmed this behaviour at the NT command line also.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser