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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Message-ID: <2237@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 22:05:04 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <8637@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <8637@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
.And there's also the assignation trick:
.
.     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.

Just don't try it in Execute(), or you'll end up at DF0: no matter where
you started from.  (BTW, is this fixed in 1.3?)

Keith Doyle
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