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From: gheim@eng.auburn.edu (Greg Heim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: cd in the background?
Keywords: cd background
Message-ID: <gheim.910430165314@lab14.eng.auburn.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 21:53:15 GMT
Sender: Greg Heim
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Howdy,

I posted this question to comp.unix.questions and got no response...
The other day I accidentally entered  

   cd /new/dir &

and my directory remained unchanged.  Can anyone explain what is going on here?


Thanks for any insight,

Greg


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|  Name: Greg Heim                                                         |
|  Address: gheim@eng.auburn.edu                                           | 
|  Description: Student, Applied Mathematics, Gasp!                        |
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