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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <6103@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:58:50 GMT
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dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.W.Tansley) writes:

>You definitely *can't* cd to other mounted volumes, at least using Telnet
>2.3. I have just tried to do it. cd / just puts you at the root of the
>boot disk; cd .. there does nothing either; cd <volume name> also does
>nothing. 

Wrongo, Stewart-Meister.  You most certainly *CAN* cd to other 
mounted volumnes with a cd ":other disk name", at least
in V2.3.2 of TelNet.  Note that I use
the quotes because the name of the other disk contains spaces.
I have changed the names of my hard disks to use periods instead of
spaces to prevent this problem.

BUT, I don't know of a way to determine the other drive's name.
Can you cd ":other disk *"?  I just tried and it doesn't work. 
In Unix you would have the same problem.  How could you cd ~smith,
if you don't know if there is a user's name "smith" in the first place.
You could cd to the root directory of whatever file system has
the home directories but only if you know where THAT is in the
first place.

BTW, I could not cd back to root with a single command either, i.e. "cd"
or "cd /".  Is this a bug?  Is it fixed in 2.4?  I am using 
2.3.2.

LATE BREAKING NEWS: In V2.4b9, the "cd /" still doesn't work.
Also, using a wild card in a cd does not work.  I will send
this to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
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