Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <4722@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 18:49:01 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8X=3WTy00Vs4ECYvw-@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
>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.

	Correct.  It is prefectly valid to have a directory named df0.
Nothing is a device name UNLESS it has a ':' at the end.  Being upset about
the about is equivalent to being upset that when you say "bin/xyzzy" it looks
relative to your current directory, instead of in /bin/xyzzy.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup