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From: bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: path names
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Date: 19 Nov 89 23:52:37 GMT
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In article <1989Nov19.134054.26516@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
>OK, so this is not very technical, but I think it belongs here more than
>in comp.sys.amiga.
>
>In unix I can specify a path name thus : "../../comp/sys/amiga/tech"
>How can I do this on the amiga?
>

You specify it like this:

	//comp/sys/amiga/tech

the backslash (/) by itself refers to the parent directory of the current
directory.  How, you ask, do you reference the root directory, then?  You use
the colon (:) as in

	:news/comp/sys/amiga

So by now, you must be saying to yourself, "Gee, that sucks!  Is this for
real?"  Unfortunately it is not a nightmare.  It is AmigaDOS.  I often
find myself typing the '..' and '.' under AmigaDOS due to UNIX habit.  I
plan on using Ash (or whatever the name ends up being) to give me access to
the files with UNIX conventions -- at least on the command line.  Sigh...


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