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- From: cs_e445@king.ac.uk (Vlod Kalicun)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: better 'CD' command wanted!
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- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:22:39 GMT
- Organization: Kingston University
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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... :-)
-
- I personally have ditched AmigaDos commands and have CShell which is a drop
- in replacement for it.
- It lets me do the above and has neat things like class. (the action on a
- file that it recognizes as a .lha would be to extract it etc..)
-
- Regards..
-
- Vlod
- -Amiga Advocate.
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- Amiga - Anything else isn't worth considering
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