"nmkdir" in the Bourne shell at a Unix machine near you.

[Ephrayim J. Naiman]

	<munch, munch>

>	if cd $d
>	then : ok, go on
>	else
>	    echo "Error, can't chdir to $d in dirpath $arg"
>	    exit 1
>	fi

I think in the bourne shell a bad cd will terminate the shell script
no matter what its return code.  Therefore, as soon as a bad cd occurs,
termination before any test.
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