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Message-Id: <199902141710.RAA14432@out2.ibm.net>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:10:48 -0500
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Subject: Re: new Bash 2.02.1 test version available
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> So it might be a good idea
> to invent some way of getting Bash to convert PATH into the /dev/d/ form,
> and have its internal commands, like `pwd' return pathnames in that form
> as well.

Sounds like a good idea. He has a lot of duplicate code to go to and 
from between the '//x/' form, so it will be some work. But the conversion 
will be good in the long run, so it's worth doing.

Mark

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