Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: arp CD command change??? Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 89 20:47:56 GMT References: <1769@cveg.uucp>, <789@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: <789@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes: > 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. I didn't like when I got my amiga either-- I was very used to unix. But now I find that it's actually a lot easier to use ('cause you you only need one character to go up a level). MsDos's '\' IS stupid because the '\' is hard to type on ibm keyboards. > 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. :-) I think you're mistaking "sane" with "familiar"... I wouldn't be surprised if by the time 1.4 comes out you won't care anymore anyway... -Miles