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- From: dra2@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Daniel Allen)
- Subject: Re: better 'CD' command wanted!
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- References: <19724@mindlink.bc.ca> <dgold.0wlm@basso.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:21:39 GMT
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- dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold) writes:
- >Quoted from <19724@mindlink.bc.ca> by Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca
- > (Graham Parkinson):
- >>> Mickey writes:
- >>> Basically I would like a complete replacement of the CD
- >>> command with at least the ability to understand "cd .."
- >>> and the other features of UCD would be nice also.
- >>
- >> Isn't just typing cd / about the same as cd .. ?
- >>
- >> I just discovered by reading the docs (!) that the 2.05 shell allows
- >> specifying the desired directory by just typing its' name - ie
- >> just by typing dh0:longwindeddir instead of cd dh0:longwindeddir.
-
- >I think you're just catching up with what Wshell has been doing all
- >along. In Wshell typing / is the same as 'cd /' (or 'cd ..' on Unix)
- >and longwindeddir is the same as cd dh0:longwindeddir if you're already
- >in dh0:
-
- Use CSHell. 'cd ..' is allowed, and Cshell has a jillion other features
- too!
-
- Daniel Allen
- dra2@cornell.edu
-
- >Cheers,
- >Dale
- >--
- >- dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz
- >- Korokoro, New Zealand
-