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Re: MSVC patch: "cd" to root dir
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Tom Holroyd |
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Re: MSVC patch: "cd" to root dir |
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Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:37:59 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Bill Denney wrote:
This is the way that the dos prompt handles it, and I think
that we should be consistent with that.
I have to disagree with this. Why in the world should anybody do
anything because that's the way DOS does it? Does anybody even
use DOS anymore? (I admit I used it recently to run debug, to
reset an I/O port under Win98, but I emphatically do not run
Octave in that environment!)
Tom Holroyd, Ph.D.
We experience the world not as it is, but as we expect it to be.