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From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman)
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Subject: Re: What do you call an ex-directory?; V5N12
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 10:01:20 EST
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 22:30:26 MST
From: seismo!hao!boulder!geoff@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Geoffrey Clemm)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <3921@ut-sally.UUCP> Roy Smith writes:

>From: seismo!allegra!phri!roy@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Roy Smith)
>Subject: What do you call an ex-directory? (or, "it's not dead, just sleeping")
>I [deleted my current directory] on a 4.2 system and got back "/" frow pwd. 
>The corresponding sequence on version 6, using sh instead of csh
>of course, would give you "".
...
>It seems to me that the version 6 answer is somehow more accurate, even if it
>is not actually any more useful.

On a 4.3 system, you get back :

  pwd: getwd: can't stat .

which seems far better than either the version 6 or the 4.2 response.

Geoff Clemm

Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 12