mathys@dover.sps.mot.com (Yves Mathys) (06/24/91)
>> From: christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas) >> Date: 23 Jun 91 08:41:29 GMT >> Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY >> >> Hello, >> >> Does anybody know what is the function of: >> >> name_$set_diru(); set naming/working directory. >> name_$resolve_afayc(); return an UID from a pathname, return info if the uid is not available. Those won't help too much. >> I am trying to implement a command that does something similar to the >> builtin 'rootnode' in csh and I cannot get it to work. >> I would appreciate any information about the arguments/function. Sounds to me that you can do that into a shell like program who can interpret the '/' as anything it wants to, but you won't be able to change the meaning of '/' for programs running in the shell after executing your code. This is why rootnode is a builtin command. -- ------------------------------------------ Yves Mathys Motorola Inc/Sector CAD mathys@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com