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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:28 +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> >> echo (${root})
> > ( hd0,1 )
> >> ls (${root})
> > error: unknown device
> 
> Is there a reason why root does not contain (hd0,1) (in this case)
> 
> I think there was once change related to ()'s in codebase... perhaps 
> this was "broken" accidently?

No idea.  It did strike me as illogical the first time I ran "set".

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin