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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
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Date: 12 Sep 88 20:50:39 GMT
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vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
> 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.

Huh?  "df0/fi" is the correct result...  I don't want the OS deciding
something is a device when I specify a directory.  MSDOS does this
(try saving "con.bas" from basic), and it's really irritating.

If someone starts yelling about something out of ignorance, they
should be straightened out, not listened to.

-Miles