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From: mrt@MRT.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU (Mary Thompson)
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Subject: HOw to resolve @sys
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Date: 19 Nov 90 17:21:48 GMT
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On Mach 2.5 systems, the filesystem resolves the name @sys to something
like vax_mach, sun3_mach, pmax_mach, ... depending on what machine type
you are running on. This works both in AFS (which started it) and on local
file systems. If you are not running Mach 2.5 and are always on the same
machine type, you can just edit it out of the Makefiles, or Makeconf files
(like where there are different object or release areas) or you can make
a symlink called @sys to  whatever is appropriate. If you are not running
Mach 2.5 and are trying to deal with common sources on multiple machine
types, then you have a problem.		
					Mary Thompson