From: Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro@gmail.com>
To: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:17:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV78LTcL8T43oWsHBvrk_5STBDjSD-PQHB-67inJpX_0ZoHdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191028173539.GA129556@alice>
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> Unix uses dot for the current directory. Was
> there any notation for this in Multics?
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> Not as a special symbol. As a command parameter, [pwd] is equivalent
to UNIX `pwd`; [hd] would be equivalent to ~, evaluating to the home
directory,
-- Charles
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-27 20:31 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-27 20:42 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-27 20:49 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-27 23:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-10-28 1:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 12:00 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-28 13:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-28 15:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 18:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-28 20:43 ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-27 20:46 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-28 17:36 ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-28 18:17 ` Charles Anthony [this message]
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2019-10-28 15:51 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:31 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-26 9:39 Caipenghui
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