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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Why are symbolic links this way
Message-ID: <1990May2.152958.21331@alphalpha.com>
Date: 2 May 90 15:29:58 GMT
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In article <2402@uniol.UUCP> lehners@uniol.UUCP (Joerg Lehners) writes:
>The problem is not the `node_data link itself. The problem is
>the evaluation of such a link if the link is on a different node than
>the node I'm logged on.

To deal with this the `node_data expansion would have to know the
difference between //nodeA accessing //nodeB, //nodeDiskless accessing
//nodeB and //nodeDiskless acessing //nodeDisklessServer.  I'm not
saying it couldn't, but I wouldn't be suprised if the layering were
such as to make it difficult to know that at the time of expansion -
given the transparency of the whole thing.

							-kee
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