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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: getcd() and getcwd() doesn't work for ram:; lattice bug?
Message-ID: <5949@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 15:51:04 GMT
References: <2766@vedge.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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.

its a characteristic (ie a bug) of the old ram-handler.  Under 1.3, the
ram-handler has a real volume node, and you'll get the name
RAM DISK  (unless of course you've relabeled your ram: disk)

The name RAM DISK was carefully chosen to break programs that couldn't
deal with spaces in volume names :-)

So upgrade to 1.3 and your problems will be solved.  I hope.
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