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From: resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone have unix utilities for OS/2
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.234748.10836@netcom.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 23:47:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.133157.6453@dialogic.com> gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) writes:
>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.

I never have known UNIX to refer to drives at all. The problem with C:
refering to C:/ is that it's inconsitant with the DOS/OS2 file system.

If, in a program (not a shell) I open "C:FOO.BAR" and the CWD on drive
C is \FILES\FOAD then the file handle returned will refer to the explicit
path C:\FILES\FOAD\FOO.BAR. 

What UNIX are you using that uses drive identifiers as pathname components?
Not SysV, Xenix, or Sun OS ... 


Cheers!
Steve
 
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