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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!newsmaster From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2nd try: amd -vs- home directories... Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:55:38 -0400 Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <324A6F3A.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> References: <3246BCFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> <529ok3$mao@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: dino.wellfleet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) > This has always been a bit of a problem. When you do the first "pwd", > the only way that bash can determine the current directory is by > climbing the path: I wonder why this doesn't happen on sun then? ip> bash$ telnet boa SunOS UNIX (boa) login: bwithrow Password: SunOS Release 4.1.4 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Sep 20 13:26:37 EDT 1996 bash$ pwd /usr25/bwithrow bash$ echo $HOME /usr25/bwithrow -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com