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- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 22:30:26 MST
- From: seismo!hao!boulder!geoff@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Geoffrey Clemm)
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- In article <3921@ut-sally.UUCP> Roy Smith writes:
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- >From: seismo!allegra!phri!roy@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Roy Smith)
- >Subject: What do you call an ex-directory? (or, "it's not dead, just sleeping")
- >I [deleted my current directory] on a 4.2 system and got back "/" frow pwd.
- >The corresponding sequence on version 6, using sh instead of csh
- >of course, would give you "".
- ...
- >It seems to me that the version 6 answer is somehow more accurate, even if it
- >is not actually any more useful.
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- On a 4.3 system, you get back :
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- pwd: getwd: can't stat .
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- which seems far better than either the version 6 or the 4.2 response.
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- Geoff Clemm
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- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 12
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