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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <614@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 Aug 88 09:11:38 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>:Amigados has a clear inferiority in that it cannot refer to current
>:directory which Unix does with ".".  So why was AmigaDos done this
>:way?  Well, just because...
>
Hello Matt,

I know that there is no current directory symbol in AmigaDOS BUT
in many cases an empty pathname, i.e "", works like current_directory.

You can test this with the COPY command, just
COPY filename ""
will copy 'filename' into your current directory.

In your programs you can get a lock to the current directory by using
     yourprocess->pr_CurrentDir;
or   currentdir = CurrentDir(NULL); CurrentDir(currentdir);
or   currentdir = Lock("");           !!!!!!!!!!!!!(don't forget to UnLock :-)


				Michael van Elst

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