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From: drstrip@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: need utility to alias paths
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.134652.10820@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov>
Date: 6 Jun 91 13:46:52 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq., NM
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I have some less than robust software that assumes my directory
structure looks a certain way, which is doesn't. I need a 
utility like SUBST or ASSIGN, but that works for paths. eg,
I would like to be able to say
foo textfms -> /tex/tfms/pktfm
 and have the effect that when this stupid program tries to
 get textfms/cmr10.tfm the os will actually look for 
 /tex/tfms/pktfm/cmr10.tfm

I don't think dpath will do this, since pathnames are assumed to
be correct and the datapath is not checked. ASSIGN and SUBST provide
drive names for the paths, not aliased pathnames.

Thanks.
drstrip@cs.sandia.gov