CWD and long paths

[Lev Bishop]

On 10/13/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As another option we could do what cmd does when it's started in a
> directory path it doesn't support.  This is the case, for instance,
> when your CWD is set to a network path.  I have no idea why cmd.exe
> doesn't support network paths...

This article purports to explain, though in typical MS KB style, it
doesn't really make things any clearer to me...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156276

Lev