On 6/1/2011 3:51, Invisible wrote:
> How random is that?

It's not at all random. It's also the reason you can unmount a drive where 
your cwd is set in Windows and not in UNIX.

Remember that DOS 1 was based on CP/M, and thus didn't have directories at 
all. When directories were added, the idea was that for each drive letter, 
you set the directory you wanted, then started up the program which would 
not refer to directories at all, but only to DOS 1 a la CP/M drive letters.

How come every time you come across legacy support, you say it's a kludge or 
a wtf or a random? :-)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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