Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!wind!tr
From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pipe files on ramdisk (was Re: Question about compressing backups)
Message-ID: <5454@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 12 Feb 88 13:31:49 GMT
References: <195@tijc02.UUCP> <2962@cup.portal.com> <391@mks.UUCP> <901@cblpe.ATT.COM> <394@mks.UUCP>
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In article <394@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
$ Command.com seems to put pipe files in the current directory.  (I guess
$ it was written before DOS had subdirectories?)
$ 
$ [...]

No, it puts them in the root directory of the current drive.

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