Dir creation

[Jungle]

TC 6.54pb2
I've just tried to create a dir with a leading '\' and it was created in the root of the current drive but not in the current dir. I think all dirs that don't contain drive in the path should be created in the current dir.

Thanks.

[djk]

This is correct behaviour.
'\' means that you want to start from the root of the drive.
You should use '.\' instead of '\' or just put only the name of the directory without any backslash.

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed this is intentional. Try also there variations:
..\somedir created in the parent directory
somedir1\somedir2\somedir3 all 3 dirs created below each other
c:\somedir dir created in root of c:
somedir1|somedir2|somedir3 all 3 dirs created in current dir

[Jungle]

This is correct behaviour.
'\' means that you want to start from the root of the drive.

Thank you. I had such idea but decided to check out.
What about a few words to add into the help file (there is nothing about it in the russian one)?

[Sheepdog]

If you open a dosbox and type the command md \anydir this dir will also be created in the root of drive.

sheepdog

[MPS]

somedir1|somedir2|somedir3 all 3 dirs created in current dir

well, thanks for that. i totally forgot that multiple dirs can be created with the '|' character - could be useful :]

[Jungle]

If you open a dosbox and type the command md \anydir this dir will also be created in the root of drive.

Well, I'm totally ashamed.

But i have some more words to say.
1. try to create dir 22\\

TC will show error message that dir 22\\ was not created, but it will create dir 22 instead after closing message box.

2. imagine the situation. you want to create dir1|dir2|dir3|...|dirN,
but TC is unable to create several dirs. So you have to close each error message (and while such a message stays open TC will not create other dirs). Maybe it would be better for TC to try to create all dirs and then show one error message with the list of non-created dirs?
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Little OT.
I write an ahk-script which can automatically create a file in the newely created dir in TC (as i often need it) and the current behaviour complicates my task.

I realize that Mr. Ghisler can't implement every user wish, but i think some things could be improved a little bit to make TC more script-oriented and user-extendable.

Thanks.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC will show error message that dir 22\\ was not created, but it will create dir 22 instead after closing message box.

This is normal - you requested to create dir "22" and subdir "", and the second one of course failed.

[Jungle]

This is normal - you requested to create dir "22" and subdir "", and the second one of course failed.

i see now. there's probably something wrong with my head

[majkinetor !]

No its not.

That is just one of those things