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From: w-stephm@microsoft.UUCP (Stephan Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: path names
Message-ID: <9134@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 21:53:55 GMT
References: <1989Nov19.134054.26516@aucs.uucp> <8911192352.AA12870@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: w-stephm@microsoft.UUCP (Stephan Mueller)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <8911192352.AA12870@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes:
>In article <1989Nov19.134054.26516@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
>
>   [concise description of how to access parent directory under AmigaDOS]
>
>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.

Um, ah, actually, no, I'm not saying anything of the sort to myself :-)
The AmigaDOS convention has some definite advantages over the Unix
convention.  In particular, the presence of a '.' and '..' entry
in every directory under Unix means that any program scanning a
directory must know about and discard this pair of entries.  This
is a special case and I find it aesthetically unpleasing.

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>| Jeff Bevis 		         | "But I don't like spam!"		      |
>| bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu	 | 	     Give me Amiga or nothing at all. |
>+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+

stephan("The force of the nasal explosion sends Calvin reeling into the
         stratosphere.");