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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
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Date: 13 Feb 89 18:46:48 GMT
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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
		^ hate, I assume

: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. :-)

	When I first began programming on the Amiga, I had these same
feelings, but after using it for a while (and also using UNIX systems
extensively for many years), I find I like the Amiga filesystem
naming conventions better.  NOT the wildcards though (I agree with you
there); Those are not a function of the filesystem anyway, but of the BCPL
programs.

	'/' for parent directory is much more efficient than '../', ""
for the current directory is likewise more intuitive.  I never did like
the fact that UNIX directories contained '.' and '..' (what a hack!).  As
far as using ':' for the root of the current volume, that is also an
intuitive extension of the multiple-volume system considering that '/'
is already taken to mean parent directory.

					-Matt