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From: bdw@mondas.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: rename 'feature'
Summary: Yipes!  I think a fix is in order...
Keywords: Bug
Message-ID: <7@mondas.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 91 09:10:42 GMT
References: <Uc9oqcu00YU68jrV4i@andrew.cmu.edu>
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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.

     Yeah, I >>do<< find it interesting!  The moral of the story seems to be,
be VERY careful when typing out a sequence for the RENAME command, otherwise
you'll trash a disk.  Mayhaps a fix is in order, eh? :)

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

Cheers^2,