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- From: bruce@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
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- Subject: Re: Dired & Ange-Ftp
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 11:14:06 GMT
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- >>>>> On 13 Sep 92 08:48:22 GMT, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) said:
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- > You don't have to backspace over the existing path. Just append:
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- > '/~/myfilename'
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- You don't even need the initial '/'. It *would* be nice, however, if
- it prompted with the directory of another dired window, if one were
- opened on the screen. Often I want to copy or move a bunch of files,
- and I have a dired for each directory, so this would be convenient.
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- Bruce Stephens. Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Liverpool Univ.
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