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- From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
- Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
- Subject: altering pathnames
- Message-ID: <199208281213.AA08508@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 04:13:18 GMT
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Lines: 18
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I don't understand the argument that we don't know what
- / means to the kernel. / means what we all know it means.
-
- I don't think it's fruitful for the GNU file utilities
- to worry about running under non-Unix-like operating systems.
- Or is this not what you're thinking about?
-
- Thomas, you seem to be worried about some abstract principle.
- I agree with the principle (in principle); in practice,
- I want the programs to work in the most convenient way,
- i.e., completion appending a / automatically, and
- the fileutils stripping off the / automatically.
-
- Is there a practical problem that my suggested solution
- (of only stripping the / when the path is a directory)
- does not solve?
-
- karl@cs.umb.edu
-