Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: design AT netcom DOT com (Chris Waters)
Subject: Re: Changing directories with Bash?
Message-ID: <designE1JoM9.E5E@netcom.com>
Organization: Design and Delivery
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:54:09 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961126164523 DOT 4395C-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii  <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:

>> What's "dir"?  What's 'd'?  Normally, "dir" is a COMMAND.COM builtin,
>> and doesn't work under Unix-like shells for DOS.  Are these some sort of
>> builtins added to the DOS version of bash, or scripts you wrote, or
>> something entirely different?

>`d' and `dir' are programs from GNU Fileutils ported to DJGPP.  `dir' is 
>just like `ls -l', and `d' is a symlink to `dir'.

Ah, ok, haven't downloaded those yet.  So if they're not bash builtins,
then they don't necessarily reveal that much about what's going on in
the guts of bash.  At most they'll reveal something about the behavior
of the djgpp libs in general, which is probably relevant, but not
necessarily.