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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Keywords: arp, cd, unix
Message-ID: <789@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 06:52:40 GMT
References: <1769@cveg.uucp>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <1769@cveg.uucp> gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner) writes:
>Would it be possible to make the arp 1.3 CD command recognize the unix
>directory names .. and . ?

PLEASE!!!  I rate the use of : for root directory, / for parent
directory and "" for current directory as a leading contender for
the worst Amiga feature (right up there with the bizarre wildcards).
It makes as much sense as the MSDOS use of \ for a pathname seperator.

Although I know the overwhelming weight of "existing stuff" seems to
preclude this, I would really like to see AmigaDOS adopt sane filename
and path naming conventions.  (My wish for 1.4. :-)