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From: mishkin@apollo.uucp (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: multiple-machine executables for Suns?
Message-ID: <36c83363.c366@apollo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.36c83363.c366
Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 10:27:28 EDT
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Reply-To: mishkin@apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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Keywords: apollos, environment

In article <2035@umn-cs.UUCP> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>In article <36b9fbe5.c366@apollo.uucp> mishkin@apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:
>-In article <1931@umn-cs.UUCP> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>-I will raise the following concern with this solution:  I might be
>-surprised when I do the following from my Sun 3:
>-
>-    cp //one_sun_4/bin/cat //another_sun_4/bin/cat
>-
>Ah, but that's not a problem.  Remember that /bin is a link to /$(systype)/bin,
>so what you're doing is:
>
>    cp //one_sun_4/sun3/bin/cat //another_sun_4/sun3/bin/cat
>
Actually, not.  I imagine "/bin" to be a link to "/$(isptype)/$(systype)/bin"
since I need to support all combinations of ISP type (Sun 3, 4, etc.) and
type of Unix (bsd4.2, sys5, etc.).  It seems wrong to conflate the two
variables.  Thus, my problem still stands.
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                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Apollo Computer Inc.
                       Chelmsford, MA
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