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Article #665altering pathnames
From: Karl Berry
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:13
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:13
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I don't understand the argument that we don't know what / means to the kernel. / means what we all know it means. I don't think it's fruitful for the GNU file utilities to worry about running under non-Unix-like operating systems. Or is this not what you're thinking about? Thomas, you seem to be worried about some abstract principle. I agree with the principle (in principle); in practice, I want the programs to work in the most convenient way, i.e., completion appending a / automatically, and the fileutils stripping off the / automatically. Is there a practical problem that my suggested solution (of only stripping the / when the path is a directory) does not solve? karl@cs.umb.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!news.bbn.com!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!claude.cs.umb.edu!karl From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: altering pathnames Message-ID: <199208281213.AA08508@claude.cs.umb.edu> Date: 28 Aug 92 04:13:18 GMT Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 18 Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu