28 Oct
2014
28 Oct
'14
6:16 a.m.
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
Especially when the syscall itself is chdir().
Perhaps "cd" was used for
something else at the time?
On the other hand, chdir is conceptually compatible with mkdir and rmdir,
both commands and system calls. I note that MS-DOS and successors allow
md and rd as alternatives.
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