Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!oscar!tell From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: MS-DOS version questions Message-ID: <16071@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 16 Sep 90 23:10:19 GMT References: <11982@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 28 In article roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >news@usc.edu writes: > >[regarding chdir() on MS-DOS] >> Um, I don't have an msdos perl workin, but come on!! You know that >> chdir on messydos is independent of the default drive.... >> >Hoo-boy! I think it's time for a chdsk() to be added to the MS-DOS >version.... I note that there is a precedent for the former operation though. The builtin "cd" on the MKS Toolkit shell works the way the original poster expected; "cd d:/usr/sgt" is probably translated into DOS system calls to change both directory and drive. I find this *MUCH* more intuitive than the old Dos way of doing things. I think the old DOS way was a hack so old dos 1.0 programs would have an easier time running on dos 2.0 (which added directories). Disclaimer: I only use DOS when I have to, and MKS makes it bearable. I'm still waiting for the Amiga-perl someone is working on. BTW, where can I ftp DOS-perl from? >Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; -------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Tell e-mail: tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu usmail: #5L Estes Park apts CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. Carrboro NC 27510