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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer)
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Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
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Date: 18 Aug 88 06:29:02 GMT
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In article <8808180107.AA05574@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
=-
=-	Actually, the standard AMIGA way of doing 'parent directory' is a
=-single slash, which I find much easier than having to type '..' all the time:
=-
	Agreed, but there are some arguments for using '..':  One, many are 
used to it; two, it might be nice to reserve '/' for a shell that allows you to
specify a virtual root whose subdirectories are all your actual storage
devices, like dh0:, vd0:, df0:, etc.  I.e., a full path would be /dh0/...
This would get rid of the 'rename across devices' annoyance, which I currently
circumvent with the following alias:

#mv between devices (does not handle a file named "-end")
alias dmv "%f set s \"\"; set dest \"\"; foreach c ( $f -end ) \"if $c <> -end; set r $s; set s $s $c; endif\"; cp -r $s; rm -r $r"

=-	Un fortunetly, there is a bug in my shell (fixed soon) when you
=-	give a relative path for the destination directory that begins with
=-	a '/'.
=-
	You wanna talk bugs, try this:

	>>set $ foo
	>>echo $
	foo
	>>set $foo bar
	>>echo $foo
	$foo
	>>echo $
	bar		[yes, really!!]

=-	Unfortunetly, the real CSH is copyrighted.  If I were to port the
=-source it my be a breach of contract with the university.
	
	Yeah, wherefore I included the smiley.

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