Topic awaiting preservation: That's strange...

I was working in the computer lab at my school and I brought up the cmd prompt in windows XP. By mistake I typed 'ls' a linux command.

and it didn't give me an error instead it printed the names of all the directories.

then I did an 'ls -all' and it printed out just like it would in linux if I did the same thing.

I also tried 'ls --help and I got the following wierd characters
(Paste them in a dos Prompt if you want to see what they really look like)

⌂♀.0↓§20↓§20▄◄T ▲0↓§L55♦T £ë"♫C

What's with that? I don't understand it.



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Do you run the Egyptian version of windows ?

A crisis of identity ?

Seriously, I don't know at all. Maybe an Linux shell has been installed somehwere and is parasiting the windows shell. But it's seems really hardly conceivable.

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most likely answer is that someone installed cgywin, wish offers a lot of unix shell software for windows as well.

Year, well, I can't even cut'n'paste from my command prompt and those commands all come up as unknown.

Are you sure it was actually the windows XP command prompt?

Yeah I'm sure, I have cygwin installed on my home computer, I know what it looks like. And I didn't click a shortcut, I went to start->run and then typed cmd. I can't really explain this...



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my cmd prompt behaved in exactly the same way (win 2k pro).

probably just a case of an overcooperative dos.

Is that some kinda ahh...copywrite er'm no....ahh volation of the GNU....no...

Are they allowed to do that?



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chances are it was simply an unintended added feature from some of the open source code that microsoft stole.

That sounds about right, but... are you allowed to do that? It sounds dirty to do so but is it legal to do so?



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