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From: blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854")
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Subject: Re:  Filesystem weirdness under IRIX 3.2
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Date: 17 Oct 90 22:16:45 GMT
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    You can cd somedir ;cd .. and end up in a totally different directory
if the somedir is a symbolic link to another directory.  The cd .. puts
you in the real directory above not the symbolic one.
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	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov