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From: perley@trub.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Keywords: arp, cd, unix
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Date: 13 Feb 89 14:28:46 GMT
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In article <789@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
>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. :-)

Try a shell.  At least one commercial one (Tshell) lets you use 
unix file name conventions including .. for parent directory and
/ for root directory (thats file system root, not just for that drive).
Disk drives and assignments are like partitions on the root directory,
so c:whatever can be referenced as /c/whatever.

Of course that only helps in cases where the shell gets to interpret the
name (command lines and shell scripts).  


-don perley