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From: goldstin@shire (Jonathan Goldstine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Pctools dir tree problem
Keywords: pctools
Message-ID: <1989Jul22.015835.1693@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 01:58:35 GMT
References: <1632@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <15700@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: goldstin@shire (Jonathan Goldstine)
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In article <15700@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Chia-Chi Chao) writes:
>In article <1632@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> wirun@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Da Ratt ) writes:
>>	Has any anyone noticed that will Pctools V5.1 (more specifically:
>>Pcshell), that if you MKDIR or RMDIR using DOS Pcshell will not display
>>the change in directory structure? This kind of threw me for a loop for 
>>a while. The problem seemed to be in a file called PCSHELL.TRE that
>>is created in the \PCTOOLS directory (made on installation). When you
>>delete this file, all your changes to the dir structure are rebuilt
>>in to a new pcshell.tre when you invoke Pcshell again. 
>
>I think that if you use CTRL-DriveName, then it rebuilds the directory tree.  I
>also ran into this problem when I couldn't find a sub-directory that I just
>made.

This is not a problem, it is a feature.  It is common for shells to save time
by restoring the previous copy of the directory tree on entry rather than 
rebuild it.  Of course, if you have made changes while outside the shell,
it will not know about them, so you must ask explicitly to have the tree
rebuilt.  This is explained on p. 25 of the PC Tools Utilities manual
("when all else fails, read the instructions") under the heading
"Important".