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From: bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson)
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Subject: Re: Neat Shell 2.0 Feature!
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Date: 19 Sep 90 10:55:50 GMT
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In article <7747@milton.u.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:

>I discovered today that from the shell in 2.0 if you can CD to a directory
>without typing the command CD.  For example, the command ":" CD's to the
>root directory.  

That's an OLD WShell feature. It seems to me that Commodore is trying
to catch up with WShell. Well, from what I've seen of the 2.0 shell,
they still have some catching up to do. And Bill Hawes isn't just
sitting around doing nothing from what I've heard...

>(I suppose more neat stuff like this is in the Using System Software
>manual which I will read cover to cover RSN).
>--
>-Dale Larson  (dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu)

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