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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Putting devices in the filename space (was Re: sources to dvi2iff...)
Message-ID: <15051@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 17:31:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.15051
Posted: Fri Sep 25 17:31:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 02:47:14 EDT
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In article <2388@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> I think the solution for this could be adding logical links to AmigaDOS.
> In the above case, something like:
> 
> 	1> MakeLink "." ""
> 	1> MakeLink ".." "/"

I like the idea Dave!  It has the side benifit of being able to control
program execution based on argv[0], also (e.g., like compress/uncompress
does in the UNIX(R) environment).  Of course one can use aliases and option
flags to achieve a similar effect, to a certain extent.

Then all that's left is to fix up "ls" with a -a flag, and teach it not
to display names that begin with a leading "." (or trailing .info) unless
the flag's on ...

/kim


P.S.  And instead of MakeLink, how about just "ln" ... :-)!


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