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Bug in dired

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From: Victor Boyko
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:43
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In GNU Emacs 19.22.1 of Thu Dec  2 1993 on archimedes (irix)

When I press 'i' in dired to insert the contents of a subdirectory, a
message like the following is printed:

/Users0/users/cims/boykov/bin/: not in this directory tree

Here's the line for bin in the dired buffer:
  drwxr-xr-x    4 boykov   cims        9728 Aug 12 11:32 bin

Strangely, this problem does not occur with Emacs 19.22 on SUN. 
I did some investigating, and here's what I found out. In dired the
default-directory is "~/". The name for the 'bin' subdirectory is
"/Users0/users/cims/boykov/bin/", and it does not begin with "~/". On
the SUN the default-directory is a full name
"/robust.a/undergrads/vb1890/", and it is a substring of the
subdirectory name "/robust.a/undergrads/vb1890/bin/". I have no idea
why the default directory on SGI is abbreviated while on SUN it is
expanded.

Sincerely, Victor Boyko
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