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From: lenox@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Lenox H. Brassell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone have unix utilities for OS/2
Summary: "C:." is even worse than "C:" under MKS Toolkit
Message-ID: <5774@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 2 May 91 16:51:06 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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I find it indefensible that the MKS Korn Shell doesn't even use the
"intuitive" definition of "C:.", the current directory on drive C!
Instead, they insist on interpreting it as "the root directory on
drive C:!

It isn't unreasonable to want to, say, copy a bunch of files to "the
current directory on drive C:", but there's no easy way to do this
using the MKS Korn Shell.

Less defensible still, is the fact that the MKS utilities for OS/2
_still_ do not support long file names for OS/2 HPFS files.  Yet they
continue to advertise their wonderful support for OS/2 in all of their
magazine ads.  I called them a couple of weeks ago to ask about this
feature, and the salesman said that their "might" be an update for the OS/2
Toolkit this fall (as in SIX MONTHS FROM NOW) and that there "might"
be support for long filenames in that release, if it came.

It's not as if long filenames are a new feature, either.  I'm not
sending these guys any more of _my_ money, and I'm not reccommending
their products to anyone I know, either.

Regards,
--Lenox [lenox@media-lab.mit.edu]