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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com
Subject:   Re: different E-problem
Message-ID:  <199809010326.XAA29122@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809010246.MAA20258@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199809010246.MAA20258@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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<<On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:46:41 +1000, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> The problems are changing back, and working on sources while you are
> cd'ed to the obj directory.  Shells usually handle links nicely so that
> cd .. works.  Sources are even harder to find if they are in contrib.

If you're using bash or ksh, ~- will get you there.  If you're using
csh, pushd/popd will do the right thing a little bit less
conveniently.

-GAWollman

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