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From: jeras@oracle.oracle.com (John Eras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: CDSPACE...
Summary: gimme a break!
Message-ID: <1990May9.061126.7344@oracle.com>
Date: 9 May 90 06:11:26 GMT
References: <2137@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
Reply-To: jeras@oracle.com (John Eras)
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Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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In article <2137@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil> nol2321@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) writes:
>>>Create a file that contains three characters. "c" "d" <space>.
>>>No trailing CR+LF!  Put it in \usr\lib\cdspace
>>
>>You've told half of the story, but what about the other half? I am
>>interested in how you create that \usr\lib\cdspace file. I don't know
>>of any smart way to get this done except by a line of C code:
>
>Well, you can just use the DOS ECHO command, like this:
>
>	C:> ECHO "cd " > \usr\lib\cdspace

Yeah, right.  Not only does this put in a CR+LF pair, but it also puts in
an excess space and two excess quotes, for a net of 8 characters!  Not
exactly the 3 characters that were desired.  What ECHO are *you* using.
Certainly not the DOS ECHO...

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