Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Summary: temporary assigns affect all processes
Keywords: multitasking assign
Message-ID: <4653@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 02:18:33 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <8637@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 19

In article <8637@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
>     CLI> assign here: ""
>     CLI> cd <elsewhere>
>     CLI> cd here:
>
>that second CD returns one to the original directory in which the ASSIGN
>was performed.  This is very useful in EXECUTE scripts.

... scripts which are not meant to support multitasking, that is.  If you
were to run that same script in another window in the meantime, the "here:"
assign would be lost.  Of course, it wouldn't be the first Amiga program
with this problem.
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