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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcard types
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Date: 2 Nov 90 14:44:47 GMT
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> Statement that AmigaOS has no way to specify the
> current directory!

This was to be a mail reply, but I decided that more people
might be interested in the answer:

AmigaOS does indeed have a way to specify the current directory:
(Drum roll please...)
                          ""

That is right whereas in UNIX we say cp <file1> <file2> .
in AmigaOS we say, copy ram:test "".
This command will copy the file ram:test to the current directory
under the same name test.
By the way, under UNIX we can say cp /tmp/xx "" and this
too will copy the file xx to the current directory!
Neat!

Regards,
Loren J. Rittle