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From: gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: arp CD command change???
Keywords: arp, cd, unix
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Date: 7 Feb 89 00:09:21 GMT
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Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Would it be possible to make the arp 1.3 CD command recognize the unix
directory names .. and . ?  I would like to see the cd command go to 
the parent directory anytime it saw a file name ..   I realize that 
this may seem like a kludge, but it could even check for a real 
directory called .. before using the parent dir name. Since the arp
commands all use the arp.library, it seems to me that all the commands
(list, etc) could implement the .. stuff. Some rules that spring to 
mind are:

1) If .. is specified, see if a .. file for directory exists. If it does
   not, expand this into the / command. 

2) If the path name is specified as ../name, then remove the .. 
   giving the desired action.

3) if the . is specified by itself, then replace this with "" 
   (or whatever is needed to make the dos stay in the same
    directory).

4) If the path name is specified as ./name, then remove the 
   ./ giving the desired action. 

Does anyone else like this idea? I really like the way arp works now
with the *? wildcards, but I would like to see the above stuff added,
If this didn't introduce other problems I haven't thought about. 
There are two reasons I would like to see this, one being that I am
used to doing .. in unix, and two being that some make files from the
unix world have the ../name construct embedded in them.
What do you think?

  Greg Garner
  501-442-4847
  gmg@hcx.uucp   USENET: ...!uunet!harris.cis.ksu.edu!hcx!gmg