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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: New CCP features.
Message-ID: <3756@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 21:27:07 GMT
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	"Civilised USER number handling: I can say B3:PROGRAM, and it
	does the sensible thing, also B3: does the same as B: / USER
	3; ...

	"the USER command has been ditched (it's now redundant)"

The USER command should not be ditched, for lots of reasons: --

  -- Losing it invalidates some shell scripts;
  -- Novices using (old!) "how to use CP/M" books will become confused;
  -- And sometimes you want to change the user number, but don't know
     (or care) what disk you're on.  (This happens mostly in shell scripts.)

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]