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Article #7064Re: Thompson Toolkit (was Re: Where can I get MKS toolkit?)
From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 03:15
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 03:15
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andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes: >[] > "MKS Utilities attempt a total and perfect emulation of UNIX > ... IMHO, MKS is unusable because they insist on treating > "c:foo" as identical to "c:/foo"; they claim this is more UNIX > compatible and therefore desirable." >To us died-in-the-wool Unix experts who don't know much MSDOS and >aren't very interested in learning, the adherence of MKS to the >"perfect emulation" goal is highly attractive. I, for one, am >delighted to have "c:foo" treated the same as "c:\foo". Could someone explain to me why it is more "Unix-ish" to have C:foo mean C:\foo instead of C:.\foo? The later is obviously what the user intends; the former is just a bug. -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!gsbsun!valley From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Thompson Toolkit (was Re: Where can I get MKS toolkit?) Message-ID: <1991Jun14.031553.7236@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 03:15:53 GMT References: <675397058.18@sunbrk.FidoNet> <1991Jun2.004359.25708@dell.dell.com> <140@grot.ca41.csd.mot.com> <72771@microsoft.UUCP> <11041@orca.wv.tek.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 20