From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:16:36 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers In-Reply-To: References: <20141027154810.EE17018C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20141028001636.GL9104@mercury.ccil.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. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Andrew Watt on Microsoft: Never in the field of human computing has so much been paid by so many to so few! (pace Winston Churchill)