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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.034751.27527@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 03:47:51 GMT
- References: <36248@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <Bs5J4E.1zL@unx.sas.com>
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- Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Organization: University of Arizona
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
-
- In article <Bs5J4E.1zL@unx.sas.com>, jamie@cdevil (James Cooper) writes:
- >According to Aquarium: (Fish Disk Database)
- >
- >Name: UnixDirs Disk: 321
- >A program which intercepts calls to dos.library to add
- >the UNIX style '.' and '..' syntax for current and parent
- >directories, respectively, to file and path names.
- >
- >I dunno if it works with 2.0, since it came out well before 2.0 did...
-
- It's probably best to stay away from this. As I recall when this first
- came out, there were several posts that indicated it has a major (ie,
- don't-use-on-pain-of-death kind) bug.
-
- Better to simply adopt Csh or SKsh as your preferred shell, both of
- which provide the`.' `..' feature (as well as other UNIXy features).
-
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- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
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