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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
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Date: 16 Feb 89 23:30:46 GMT
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In <DEVEN.89Feb14055924@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu>, deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes:
 >....  There is no easy equivilent for "./file"
 >under AmigaDOS...  "file" isn't the same thing; maybe you want to
 >force use of the file in the current directory, and not search any
 >sort of a path.  (Path searching should never be done on pathnames,
 >only on basenames...)  You can't use '""/file' or '"/file"' or '/file'
 >because they all refer to the file in the parent directory.  I suppose
 >"current directory/file" would probably work, but that's a rather
 >horrible kludge itself, and far far more inconvenient to type than
 >./file is.  (You CAN, for example do 'list "current directory"' to get
 >a listing of the current directory.  weirdness.)

But "file" _is_ the same thing, only a lot more intuitive and shorter.  Paths
are searched _after_ the current directory, not before.

 >Next time, please get your facts straight before flaming as fine an
 >operating system as Unix is.  Or hold your flames.

It's always a good idea to get your facts straight, no matter which OS you are
knocking, wouldn't you agree?

-larry

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