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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NCD on Amiga?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:59:13 GMT
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In article <4961@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> martijn@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Reinalda M.) writes:
> Let's say there's a directory DH0:programs/graphics/sculpt/objects 
>
>Then I wanna type : NCD objects
>
>and the computer should automaticaly know where that directory is located
>( I don't care how) and perform a : 
>
>CD dh0:programs/graphics/sculpt/objects 
>
>It also should not matter in what directory I am on the moment of giving
>the NCD command. 

"It's in there!"

How about this in your startup-sequence:

	assign objects: dh0:programs/graphics/sculpt/objects

then you can say

	cd objects:		; note the colon (:) at the end

and voila'!!!  Do a few assigns for your most common directories, and
you're in business.  No new programs needed.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann        "How is American beer similar to making love in
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu    a canoe?" -- "Both are f***ing close to water."