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Article #310Epoch uses home directory instead of current directory
From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 06:48
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 06:48
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that it looked good.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle after being briefed
on Space Station Freedom by NASA.
Tom Crook writes:
> An Epoch user I know has the following problem. When he attempts to
> start epoch with a filename argument, Epoch always uses his home
> directory rather than the current working directory. For example: he
> is in the subdirectory ~/code and wants to edit an existing file foo.c
> so he types:
>
> epoch foo.c
>
> Epoch starts up and creates a new file ~/foo.c instead of editing the
> existing file ~/code/foo.c
>
> Can anyone tell us why Epoch does not grab the current working directory
> and is defaulting to the home directory?
Certain systems/shells do not manage the PWD environment variable
correctly. Those that do not do so cause this problem.
Marc
--
Marc Andreessen
Epoch Development Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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