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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fedia.social/notes/a5au3ut4fmzn0wsk">clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 20:33:04 JST</a><a href="https://fedia.social/@notclacke" title="notclacke@fedia.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/173067-48-20230915204822.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="clacke@libranet.de is my main" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">clacke@libranet.de is my main</a><div><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/9251531" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/231850" title="lunarood@mastodon.gamedev.place">Luna Rood</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p>Whereas in Win32, there is only one current directoryI have been lied to by CMD.EXE. 🤯<br><br>So does D:some_dir even have meaning in the system? I'll have to find a Windows machine and experiment.<br><br><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180813013919/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100506-00/?p=14133">web.archive.org/web/20180813013919/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100506-00/?p=14133</a><br><br>/via <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53078528/how-to-get-current-working-directory-of-another-drive-in-batch/53078745#comment93054937_53078745">stackoverflow.com/questions/53078528/how-to-get-current-working-directory-of-another-drive-in-batch/53078745#comment93054937_53078745</a><br>/via <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood/114144521393298888">mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood/114144521393298888</a><br><br><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood">@lunarood</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias">@dalias</a> <a href="https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron">@hipsterelectron</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4701289#notice-9251694">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-13T20:33:04+09:00" title="Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 20:33:04 JST">about 18 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fedia.social/notes/a5au3ut4fmzn0wsk" rel="external" title="Sent from fedia.social via ActivityPub">fedia.social</a></span></span><a href="https://fedia.social/notes/a5au3ut4fmzn0wsk">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: web.archive.org</div><h5><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180813013919/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100506-00/?p=14133">What are these strange =C: environment variables?</a></h5><div></div></header><div>You won’t see them when you execute a SET command, but if you write a program that manually enumerates all the environment variables and prints them out, and if you launch it from a command prompt, then you’ll see weird variables with names like =C: and whose values correspond to directories on that drive. What...</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: cdn.sstatic.net</div><h5><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53078528/how-to-get-current-working-directory-of-another-drive-in-batch/53078745">How to get current working directory of another drive in Batch?</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Is there a way to get the current working directory of a drive other than the current drive?Windows stores the current directory of every drive and %cd% gets the current working directory of the ...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 20:33:04 JSTclacke@libranet.de is my main
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Whereas in Win32, there is only one current directoryI have been lied to by CMD.EXE. 🤯

So does D:some_dir even have meaning in the system? I'll have to find a Windows machine and experiment.

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  What are these strange =C: environment variables?
  You won’t see them when you execute a SET command, but if you write a program that manually enumerates all the environment variables and prints them out, and if you launch it from a command prompt, then you’ll see weird variables with names like =C: and whose values correspond to directories on that drive. What...
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  How to get current working directory of another drive in Batch?
  Is there a way to get the current working directory of a drive other than the current drive? Windows stores the current directory of every drive and %cd% gets the current working directory of the ...

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