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From: schwartz@gondor.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 16:30:52 EDT
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In article <1119@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>What we need is a third entity that will (a) not be attached to a 
>specific place in the directory hierarchy but (b) be known to
>the kernel.

>we will simply be able to say:
>     #include <$SYS/thing.h>
>and have $SYS be interpreted by the filesystem. 

This sounds like a good idea to me.  Doesn't Apollo provide something
like this in Aegis?  I've seen Apollo systems (the engineering department
at Swarthmore, if you must know) that had a link from /usr/bin to 
something like  /usr/$(SYS)/bin  so users can select /usr/bsd/bin or 
/usr/sys5/bin.  


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu