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From: gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone have unix utilities for OS/2
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.133157.6453@dialogic.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 13:31:57 GMT
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In article <72009@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>
>MKS utilities treats "c:foo" as exactly identical to "c:/foo", which makes
>it, IMHO, unusable.  The MKS vi is a very good product, and available
>separately from the rest of the MKS Toolkit.

Just out of curiousity, what's wrong with that?  C: is device C, just
as SYS: is device SYS on Novell.  In a Unix-type shell, if I did a "cp
C:" I would want it to go to the root of the C device, not some
arbitrary directory that C: had been cd'ed to.  (ie if I had done a
"cd C:/foo/devs" and then did a "cp C:" and everything went to
"C:/foo/devs" I would scream.)  MKS does a pretty good job of imitating
a UNIX ksh.

-gerry


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