In article <MUTS.93Jul20213036@compi.hobby.nl> muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
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>>>On Sun, 18 Jul 1993 20:19:06 GMT, farrow@spot.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott
>>>Farrow) said:
>
>  JSF> somewhat interesting.  While VMS does have some fine features
>  JSF> like queues, priviliges, and quotas (BACKUP is _not_ one),
>  JSF> there is something intrinsically braindead about an OS that
>  JSF> will let me set my default directory (cd for UNIX types) to a
>  JSF> directory that doesn't exist.
>
>I don't want to defend VMS or offend unix, but this remark makes no
>sense. In Unix you can also do this:
>
>~> HOME=/haha
>/home/muts> cd
>/haha: No such file or directory
>/home/muts> 

The finer point here is that you may enter from DCL the command :

    set default [directory.which.does.not.exist]

and it does not complain until you start working from this directory, i.e.
show default. As a side-effect your previous default directory setting is
lost.

Whereas in Unix (any flavour I know of anyway) the command

    cd /directory/which/does/not/exist

will _immediately_ complain about the fact that this directory does not
exist and leave you RIP in this directory.

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>Peter Mutsaers       |  Bunnik (Ut),     |      Quod licet bovi,
>muts@compi.hobby.nl  |  the Netherlands  |      non licet Jovi

Just my 2e-2$,

Arthur


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