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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: micro-C-Shell quirks (was: Re: os bug?)
Message-ID: <971@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 18:13:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.971
Posted: Mon May 11 18:13:21 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 14-May-87 03:27:35 EDT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: reading floppy files
Summary: Happens in micro-C-Shell too

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Inside micro-C-Shell too, if I replace the floppy and say "cp a:\file ."
(where '.' is the RAMdisk) it works fine, but if the first thing I do with
the newly-inserted disk is "cp a:\folder\file ." it says "not found".
I got used to typing "ls a:\" immediately after inserting a new floppy.
Why is that?  And also: when is that backslash needed?  And why is it
prohibited inside shell scripts in cases where it is possibly redundant
but accepted from the keyboard?

- Moshe Braner