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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <5660012@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 88 23:46:38 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> :Then sombody with nothing better to do will come along and do
> :'foo("df0", "fi");' and get "df0/fi" and start yelling.
> :The problem is that only the OS knows what are the
> :legal device names.
> 
> 	That is plain stupid.  If you want DF0: you SAY DF0:, if you want
> a subdirectory called df0, you SAY df0... Not even an idiot would specify
> DF0: as DF0 without the colon.  I mean, come on now... how about some
> practical arguments.
> 						-Matt

Calm down Matt!  Your statement is not quite true.  Shall we make a
list of standard Amiga commands which require the : name be specified
without the colon?  Start with Format.  Granted MyDisk: is not
exactly the same as DF0: but it sure looks like the same format.
Be careful who you call an idiot.
--
Charles Brown