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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <8808301909.AA16139@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 30 Aug 88 19:09:31 GMT
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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.

	Uh, you got the wrong guy.  I DIDN'T WRITE THAT!  I *included* that
comment by somebody else in my on reply which stated exactly what you are 
stating.  The -other guy- also mentioned that AmigaDOS had a weird way of
going back to the parent directory and I pointed out that AmigaDOS's way
was a hell of a lot less weird than the UNIX way ('/' instead of '../').

	Hello Mike,

						-Matt