From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:16:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141028001636.GL9104@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410280318570.57132@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
> Especially when the syscall itself is chdir(). Perhaps "cd" was used for
> something else at the time?
On the other hand, chdir is conceptually compatible with mkdir and rmdir,
both commands and system calls. I note that MS-DOS and successors allow
md and rd as alternatives.
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2014-10-27 15:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 16:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-28 0:16 ` John Cowan [this message]
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2014-10-28 1:55 Jason Stevens
2014-10-28 12:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 18:16 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-10-27 16:50 Norman Wilson
2014-10-27 14:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 15:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 15:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 16:52 ` Dan Cross
2014-10-27 13:54 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 13:46 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-27 10:32 Jason Stevens
2014-10-27 13:03 ` Brantley Coile
2014-10-27 13:34 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 13:40 ` random832
2014-10-27 14:04 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-27 15:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-27 17:09 ` scj
2014-10-27 20:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-27 21:34 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 1:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-28 2:06 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 12:22 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 12:42 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-28 13:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-10-28 22:02 ` John Cowan
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