"cd path" strangeness

[Geoff Rimmer]

In article <922 at .UUCP> jbush at ficc.UUCP (james bush) writes:
>In article <337 at vector.UUCP>, chip at vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>> Here is a wierd one.  In csh, move to some directory which doesn't have
>> a "path" subdirectory.  Then type either "cd path" or "chdir path".
>> 
>> The expected response would be "path: No such file or directory."  Instead,
>> no message is issued, and either you stay where you were or you move to
>> $path[1]...
>
>This is even more wierd. I tried it on our Intel Xenix system, and it worked
>as you said when I did it under my login.  However, when I tried to show it 
>to my friend under his id, it came up with the "expected" error message! I
>am not sure what the difference is.

Perhaps he uses Bourne shell?  

extravagent_prompt % sh
$ cd path
path: bad directory
$

No flames please - term finishes in under a week - so I won't be here
to read them 8-)

Geoff.

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