Re: File Open buglet

["Robert Holmgren" <holmgren>]

** Reply to message from "Myron Gochnauer" <goch> on Tue, 14 Jan 2003
08:05:36 -0600 (CST)


>> Assuming your current location is dir \XyWrite, to ChDir to>
>> "XyWrite III+" in both DOS and NB, command:
>> cd .\XYWRIT~1

> Do you mean to suggest that I've been
> doing this sort of thing incorrectly for years without noticing a problem
> before?  I don't think I've ever used the .\ form!

My apologies.  You're quite right, it does work.  Live and learn.  All my life
I've been using "." to represent the current dir, and ".." to represent the
parent, in fully-qualified dirspecs.  It seems to me that most languages and
utilities (ZIP and UNZIP, for example) require it, and maybe that's why the
habit is so deeply ingrained; but now I'm going to test that assumption too. 
"." and ".." always work, everywhere, so it's not a bad habit to have.

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Robert Holmgren
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