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- From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
- Subject: Re: better 'CD' command wanted!
- Message-ID: <meFPXB3w165w@coyote.datalog.com>
- Sender: bbs@coyote.datalog.com (Waffle System)
- Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
- References: <1993Jan16.003001.9711@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 02:02:20 GMT
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- e228reac@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Rea Christopher Wi) writes:
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- >
- > The reason for a replacement CD command is simple. Sure, auto-directory
- > navigation with Release 2 was made incredibly easy, but there are those of
- > us whose fingers are just itching to do "cd .." to return to the parent
- > directory. After using UNIX for a long time and AmigaDOS too it gets
- > confusing. I find myself using "cd .." on the Amiga side occasionally and
- > "cd /" when I'm logged into a UNIX system; one CD command that could handle
- > both would solve the problem for me on the Amiga. (UNIX is a different
- > story... :-)
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- alias cd / cd ..
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- Wouldn't that work in the Shell-Startup file?
-
- (Speaking of that, I gotta get cracking on that and get it fixed up the
- way *I* like it myself... :) )
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