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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unix made easy (was Re: globbing furniture)
Message-ID: <1991Feb01.201158.2741@kithrup.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 91 20:11:58 GMT
References: <3148@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <48503@apple.Apple.COM> <48748@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <48748@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>Another neat feature with these 'user-friendly' links are that they mount
>file systems to which the link points to - usually in the background without
>any user intervention (if the user don't have to give a new passwd for
>the server). This is for instance a feature that we don't have with 
>symbolic links over NFS networks.   

amd.  It (or the other one, there are two of them that I know of) was
described at the summer '88 usenix, I believe (I'm not positive, though).

As for "usually in the background":  uhm... I click on a file which isn't
mounted, it attempts to mount it "in the background."  Does that mean it
tries to guess what the file looks like, and give me what it hopes is
correct data?

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