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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Directory Continuation (was: Re: UNIX history made easy)
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Date: 5 Oct 89 22:11:20 GMT
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In article <17097@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:

>I realized after writing that bit of tongue-in-cheek nonsense that
>``directory continuation'' really might have a useful purpose.
>
>Is there anything more that can be said about it or is it supposed
>to be hush-hush work?

If you have the summer '89 Usenix proceedings, look at the paper "The 3-D
File System". "continuation directories" was on old name we used
internally to refer to it.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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