Article ID: 106165
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q106165
SYMPTOMS
A colon (:) is accepted as a parameter for the change directory (CD) command at the Windows NT command line when the current volume is formatted for NTFS. This results in the current directory becoming the previous directory with a colon appended as if it were a valid subdirectory name. This results in some unpredictable behavior for other command line utilities such as COPY when you attempt to transfer files between the "current" directory and the "parent" directory because these both evaluate to the same physical location.
The following is an illustration of the effect:
F:\DIR
Volume in drive F is fffff
Volume Serial Number is 6C15-9A0F
Directory of F:\
10/14/93 01:33p 5 test.p
10/14/93 01:33p 5 test.q
10/14/93 01:32p 0 test.s
08/03/93 08:33a 5 test.t
4 File(s) 15 bytes
19724288 bytes free
F:\CD :
F:\:\DIR
Volume in drive F is fffff
Volume Serial Number is 6C15-9A0F
Directory of F:\:
10/14/93 01:33p 5 test.p
10/14/93 01:33p 5 test.q
10/14/93 01:32p 0 test.s
08/03/93 08:33a 5 test.t
4 File(s) 15 bytes
19724288 bytes free
F:\:\copy test.p ..
1 file(s) copied.
F:\:\
Note that you cannot usually copy a file over itself.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: kbother KB106165
