mdj wrote:
On Jun 23, 10:43 am, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:On Jun 23, 4:40 am, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:I also add a PFX shortcut for PREFIX, mainly because too many years of Merlin'ing caused my brain to start using PFX when I shouldn't :-)I added CD (PREFIX) and LS (CAT/CATALOG) external commands at one stage (because of my Unix background)..I've considered doing a CD that can interpret ".." as parent directory, it'd be a real timesaver
I have that as an external command, loaded by STARTUP. I think it came with a bunch of others in ProCMD (?). It is very handy using the .. notation to move about in a directory tree, as you know. It's a shame that the ProDOS (SOS?) designers didn't provide a way of "trimming" a path as well as extending it. As for "ls", that seems like an easy patch, rather than an external command--if it is just a synonym for CATALOG. -michael NadaNet file server for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."