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

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 09:07
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panda@marlin.ssnet.com (Pamela Kane) writes:

> 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.

That doesn't prove anything - TRUENAME is refering to the 2nd level
subdirectory.

Just "truename" shows the current directory's truename - and it is
correct under both DOS 5 and 4DOS 5.


hamish


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From: hamish@cloud.apana.org.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: Re: LABEL/directory confusion - genuine bug in MSDOS 6.0 ?
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 20:07:18 +1100
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