Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!840493n
From: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dillon's Shell Gripe...is it fixed?
Message-ID: <1481@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 00:40:00 GMT
Reply-To: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia (yeah!)
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Much to my chagrin, I have found a neat little "feature" of Dillon's Shell.
Admittedly, I'm only using version 2.05 (or something like that), but I think
this should have been thought of at the first. I had one directory that held
almost half a year's worth of term papers and stuff on a disk. I was in the
root directory and I thought I was somewhere in another subdirectory in the
root. I accidentally typed "mv * df1:docs". As I casually noticed that I was
in the root directory (aaaahhhhhh!!!!), I immediately hit ^C. Too late.
The number of blocks used on the disk hadn't changed, but the shell had nicely
moved the "docs" directory into itself, erasing the directory entry. Now I
gotta think of a way to rebuild everything. Has this been fixed? Does shell
check to see if a directory is being moved into itself? I hope so......

Thanx.
...Bill.