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From: perley@trub (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: path names
Message-ID: <10294@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:00:30 GMT
References: <1989Nov19.134054.26516@aucs.uucp>
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In-reply-to: 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)

In article <1989Nov19.134054.26516@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs (Alan McKay) writes:
>In unix I can specify a path name thus : "../../comp/sys/amiga/tech"

>How can I do this on the amiga?

The commercial shell Tshell allows this notation, as well as / for the
file system root.  Maybe Wshell does, I don't know.

As someone pointed out regarding SKsh, this only helps for command lines.
For specifying a file from within a program you have to revert back to
the amigados conventions.

-don perley

perley@trub.crd.ge.com