Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Same questions again and again.... Sigh! Message-ID: <67@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 27 Mar 89 03:40:23 GMT References: <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> <47800029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1383@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <2113@cveg.uucp> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 30 In-reply-to: tale@its.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) In article , tale@its (David C Lawrence) writes: >$cwd >works just fine for people who don't care where they REALLY are in >the directory tree (ie, those who never bother with .. ). However, >for those of us who do use .. as a convenient shorthand way to move >around directories, $cwd doesn't cut it. Yes it does, if your csh supports set hardpaths I know SunOS has it. Don't know who originated it. ========================== Someone really ought to post a once a month article with an expiration date a month away answering all of these questions that keep showing up every other month... Anyone who can dedicate a little time and effort can do this. Maybe it wouldn't give every *possible* variation (i.e. shell prompts, undoing rm) but it could keep those same questions from popping up every so often, spuring on those dozens of follow-on articles that seem to clog the wizard/question newsgroups. With the same Subject line in the regular postings, the regular readers could Kill that subject automatically, making everyone's life easier. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,