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Re: LABEL/directory confusion - genuine bug in MSDOS 6.0 ?

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From: Andrew Derry
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 03:19

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panda@marlin.ssnet.com (Pamela Kane) writes:

>drive.)  If there is a subdirectoy which has the same name as the 
>current directory, that name is reported back as the fully resolved path 
>and not the current directory.  Try it yourself. Switch to the 
>subdirectory, and type TRUENAME "TEMP".  If there is a TEMP in the 
>subdirectory the return is C:\TEMP\TEMP.

Uhh.. if you're in a directory called C:\TEMP, and there's a
sub-directory in it called TEMP, and you type TRUENAME TEMP, the
expected result _IS_ C:\TEMP\TEMP.  You are asking for the truename of
the subdirectory of the directory that you are in.

Cheers

--
Andrew Derry - derry@sfu.ca

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