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From: rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: rename 'feature'
Message-ID: <Uc9oqcu00YU68jrV4i@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 01:00:24 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I was just toying around tonight and stumbled across an interesting
'feature' of rename under OSK. Try the following on a ramdisk
or floppy you dont care about:

$ rename .. foo

$ rename . foobar

This produces precisely the expected results. The unfortunate consequence
is that you no longer have access to your working directory, as most
programs look for '.' as the working directory. Chd foo will indeed
take you up one directory level tho.

Funny thing, though. Rename won't allow you to change this back; you have
to use a sector editor of some sort and manually do it.
I just thought some of you might find this interesting.

Cheers,

Russell Hoffman
rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University