ksh's cd tries to do too much

[lawrence.v.cipriani]

In article <3604 at risky.Convergent.COM> chrisb at risky.Convergent.COM (Chris Bertin) writes:
>Ksh does some pre-parsing on the argument to 'cd'. It removes from the
>argument all the '..' and the name before the '..' (for optimization, I
>guess):

What version of ksh are you running?  This was removed; it is not present
in ksh88f:

	$ cd
	$ mkdir -p $HOME/x/y
	$ CDPATH=:$HOME/x
	$ cd y/..
	$ pwd
	/usr6/lvc/x

Ksh will do a CDPATH search even if there are /'s in the path given to cd
and it will not do any sort of pre-parsing now.
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc at cbvox.att.com
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