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Re: CurrentDir

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From: Peter Schachte
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 00:25
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In article <133060@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> You are forbidden from freeing locks that you didn't create.

But this leaves the question:  how do you write a program that leaves a
different directory current when it exits?  Is there a way not to waste
the few bytes occupied by the old lock?  How would you write CD?
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CurrentDir
Message-ID: <1332@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 00:25:10 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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