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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neat Shell 2.0 Feature!
Message-ID: <42707@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:28:10 GMT
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mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
< Bjorn Knutsson <bjornk@bula.se> writes:
< >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,
< 
<  One could even go so far as to say that it's an old MS-DOS feature!

If I am interpreting this feature correctly, there is no counterpart in
MS-DOS.  You cannot type 'c:\mydir\stuff' and change to that directory
under MS-DOS.  You CAN type 'c:' and make that the active drive, but it
does NOT change you to the root directory unless that was the last active
directory on that drive.

Let's not confuse powerful NEW features of AmigaDOS with antiquated
'features' of MS-DOS.

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