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Subject: Re: CD to a Subdir Before Creating It
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Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 12:06:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 12:06:58 1987
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Summary: how about a qualifier?

In article <8703030035.AA24496@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET writes:
> 4. DIGITAL is perfectly capable of improving the standard DCL environment,
>    if we give them a clear message that it needs to be done.  Granted it takes
>    time, but we end up with a better product, don't we?
>    - `SET DEFAULT [nosuch]' could be modified to return a warning message for
>      programmers, with a helpful message for novices such as `Directory does
>      not exist--create it or choose another'

Better would be to have DEC add a qualifier such as /MUSTEXIST. Without it,
SET DEFAULT works as now so we don't break any .COM files. If you like UNIX,
do "CD :== SET DEFAULT/MUSTEXIST" and then it yells at you if you CD to a
non-existant directory. Symbols, unlike command files, are cheap!


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