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From: stellrec@deneb.cis.ohio-state.edu (barry stellrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Summary: Another solution, for CSH users.
Keywords: multitasking assign
Message-ID: <21291@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 88 11:52:36 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <8637@cup.portal.com> <4653@cbmvax.UUCP>
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In article  <4653@cbmvax.UUCP> 
: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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:                                        -=] Ford [=-
:        .               .               (In Real Life: Mike Ditto)
:.           :          ,                ford@kenobi.cts.com

A way which supports multi-tasking much better, if you are using the Dillon/
Drew CSH program would involve the two aliases below (I use them fairly
extensively myself):

alias savecd	"cd | input _oldcd"
alias oldcd	"cd $_oldcd;unset oldcd"

Usage might be like:  savecd;cd telecom:; {do stuff} oldcd.  I find them quite
nice for quickly booting up programs that like their own directory for stuff,
without getting my working directory somewhere other than where I want it

					Barry Stellrecht