[ANN] [UPDATES] Squeak 3.4 now in beta

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri Dec 6 11:39:34 UTC 2002


Tim Rowledge wrote:

> > Oh dear. The Unix guys really have been far-sighted when they created 
> > (or maybe adopted) the single-rooted path name hierarchy. It's _so_ 
> > much simpler to use than everything else out there ... No wonder it 
> > was adopted for URLs, too.
>
> I'd almost agree, thought there are interesting little issues like
> cd'ing into a subdirectory that is actually a link and then innocently
> doing 'cd ..' and not going back where you came from :-)

Pah. You forgot to set $symlinks to "ignore". Any reasonable shell can 
figure this out easily ;-)

-- Bert




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