To: cwolff AT slowboy DOT intellistor DOT com (Clint Wolff)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: several questiond from new user 
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 16:49:11 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo AT hpnmxx DOT sr DOT hp DOT com>

> But why he asks.... I have only recently gotten Demacs running (uEmacs
> finally ran out steam....), so I don't claim to be an expert.... Why
> does emacs throw everything up to the // away???

     It does this so that, if you have to enter a new path, you do not
have to backspace over the old path.  There's no point in debating
whether or not this is really a feature; this is the way GNU Emacs
works, and there's no point in arguing over it (unless you like to
argue).

     Frankly, I'd much rather have two getcwd() routines: one for Unix
semantics and one for DOS semantics.  If people want getcwd() to work
like a DOS getcwd(), that's fine -- I just want a Unix-like getcwd(),
and it doesn't matter if it's called unix_getcwd() or whatever.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo AT sr DOT hp DOT com

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