Epoch uses home directory instead of current directory

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2 total messages Started by Tom Crook Thu, 01 Oct 1992 15:46

#307

Author: Tom Crook
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 15:46

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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?

He is running on an HP/Apollo 425t with Domain 10.3.5.  Epoch was
compiled using Domain's BSD4.3 emulation.

Epoch uses home directory instead of current directory

#310

Author: Marc Andreessen
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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