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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: getcd() and getcwd() doesn't work for ram:; lattice bug?
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Date: 9 Feb 89 22:12:25 GMT
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In article <2766@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>When getcd() or getcwd() is run on the directory ram:; it returns ":".
>Is this normal behaviour for those routines?  Is that a characteristic of
>the ram:.  It works ok on everything else.

This was a bug in the ram-handler as I recall. I wrote a version of 
getcwd() that would return RAM: but believe it was made obsolete by
the 1.3 ram handler. 


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