From: wxwilki@lookout (Bill Wilkinson)

Subject: Re: I can't find my stupid archives!

Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 20:36:00 GMT

Anti JN (dat92jni@ludat.lth.se) wrote:
: In some bacon article wxwilki@borg.uswc.uswest.com (William Wilkinson) stated:
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News
: >alt/   comp/  talk/
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News/alt
: >best/       geek/       stupidity/
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News/alt/stupidity/
: >ascii.art    clue         helpme       nosy1        sig.test
: >booger       disgruntled  idio.mon     pal          stouffer
: >bwok         faq          legba        rankings     yth
: >cheese       figurines    nosy         scale
: >borg$ cd /home/wxwilki/News/alt/supidity
: >ksh: /home/wxwilki/News/alt/supidity:  not found
: >borg$ 
: >
: >What the heck, man?  They were just there!
: >
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News
: >alt/   comp/  talk/
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News/alt
: >best/       geek/       stupidity/
: >borg$ ls /home/wxwilki/News/alt/stupidity/
: >ascii.art    clue         helpme       nosy1        sig.test
: >booger       disgruntled  idio.mon     pal          stouffer
: >bwok         faq          legba        rankings     yth
: >cheese       figurines    nosy         scale
: >borg$ cd /home/wxwilki/News/alt/supidity
: >ksh: /home/wxwilki/News/alt/supidity:  not found
: >borg$ 
: >
: >HEY??!???!!!  What gives???!??

: Ah! This is a problem due to the fact that you're
: using kornshell.
:       ^^^^
: Obviously if you were using baconshell (also known as "sh")
: this wouldn't happen.

Okay!  I'll try it!

lookout{wxwilki}: sh
$ ls /home/wxwilki/News
/home/wxwilki/News not found

Huh?

$ pwd
/home/lookout1/wxwilki

That's strange, where did that come from?

$ ls /home/lookout1/wxwilki/News
5tube           ebut5           idiot.04        jesus.03        jesus.07
KILL            idiot.01        idiot.05        jesus.04        kissinger.html
aboi.faq        idiot.02        jesus.01        jesus.05        krisskross.c
bacon_center    idiot.03        jesus.02        jesus.06        stdeat.h

Hey!  All my file names have changed and I've lost some directories!

$ exit
lookout{wxwilki}: 

--Bill (at least there was a bacon file there)

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Jesper Nilsson // dat92jni@ludat.lth.se or jesper@df.lth.se