Re: Finding current Directory

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From: Neil Weinstock
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1989 04:21

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In article <406@bilver.UUCP> alj@bilver.UUCP (arthur johnson) writes:
> For ASSIGN, use 'ASSIGN ???: ""' <- two double quotes to ASSIGN something
>to the current directory.  I think you can use the "" on some other AmigaDOS
>commands, but am not sure if you can use it in ALL reasonable situations.

Well, one reasonable situation where I can't use it is from Matt's shell
v2.11.  The double quote is ignored.  Is there any way to do it?  I just
checked the docs and didn't find anything.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cord!nsw
From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Finding current Directory
Summary: Can't do it from Shell v2.11
Message-ID: <709@cord.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 04:21:06 GMT
References: <71214R38@PSUVM> <406@bilver.UUCP>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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