Posted by Nospam on 10/17/06 23:25

I am trying to get to the bin directory of mysql 5 on windows, the name of
the mysql folder whereby I can cd to the bin directory is MySQL Server 5.0
and windows has shortened it to MYSQLS~1 however I cannot get to the
directory regardless of what I type, it keeps saying invalid directory, this
is what my dos prompt looks like:


C:\Program Files>cd mysql

C:\Program Files\MySQL>dir


Directory of C:\Program Files\MySQL

.. <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 .
... <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 ..
MYSQLS~1 0 <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 MySQL Server 5.0
0 file(s) 0 bytes
3 dir(s) 275.46 MB free

C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd mysql~1
Invalid directory

C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd mysqls~1
Invalid directory

C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd MYSQLS~1
Invalid directory

C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd MYSQLS~1

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