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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Thompson Toolkit (was Re: Where can I get MKS toolkit?)
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Date: 14 Jun 91 03:15:53 GMT
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andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:

>[]

>	"MKS Utilities attempt a total and perfect emulation of UNIX
>	... IMHO, MKS is unusable because they insist on treating
>	"c:foo" as identical to "c:/foo"; they claim this is more UNIX
>	compatible and therefore desirable."

>To us died-in-the-wool Unix experts who don't know much MSDOS and
>aren't very interested in learning, the adherence of MKS to the
>"perfect emulation" goal is highly attractive.  I, for one, am
>delighted to have "c:foo" treated the same as "c:\foo".

Could someone explain to me why it is more "Unix-ish" to have C:foo mean
C:\foo instead of C:.\foo?  The later is obviously what the user
intends; the former is just a bug.
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