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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NCD -> ACD (Norton CD -> Amiga CD)..??
Keywords: cd, ncd, change directory, norton
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Date: 6 Apr 91 05:18:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.074949.1692@ericsson.se> etxpihl@texas16.ericsson.se (DEE Tomas Pihl) writes:
>Anyone out there who has a similar tool for the Amiga as the tool
>NCD (Norton Change Directory) for the PC ?   
>Short description of NCD:
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>It's a tool for changing directory (isn't that obvious), but not
>in the ordinary way. Here you just type eg. C> cd golf, even
>if the golf directory is located under games\golfgames\fun and
>you are standing on the root. With this tool, you don't have to 
>specify the whole path down to the wanted directory.
>
I don't know the NCD program; what does it do if you have two
directories, both named 'golf' in different hierarchical
locations?

The capability you refer to is built right into AmigaDOS, and
avoids the abovementioned problem by requiring one to explicitly
define "logical" directories, much like "C:" refers to the 
'c' directory on the boot disk.  This is all described under the
"ASSIGN" command documentation.

If you're more interested in a "directory finding" sort of
utility, then I have only the vaguest notion that something of
the sort does exist in PD/shareware form.  If you find out,
please post...

>Tomas Pihl                   | E-mail: etxpihl@texas.ericsson.se
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Thom Cleland         // 
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