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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Query about GNU Emacs and Altos WorkNet
Message-ID: <5194@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 22:20:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 22:20:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 12:41:19 EST
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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Chances are good that I'll be trying to bring up GNU Emacs on an Altos 386
soon.  The problem is that the 386 comes with the Worknet network installed,
but not running.  The effects this has are:

	1. "pwd" returns a path rooted on the network root (@), NOT the
	   local root (/)
	
	2. But since the network server is not running, network-rooted
	   paths are not acceptable.

I already know that Jove dies horrible deaths when confronted with this
situation (since it wants to construct full pathnames, and everyone knows
that the root is /, it just keeps prepending the current directory from pwd
-- which is rooted from @ -- to the path name).  My question is:  are there
many Gnumacs files which assume that root is /?  And how hard would it be
to check to see if the network is running and change the path construction
rules based on it?  (How to tell is easy:  the local root is @/ if the
server isn't running, but @machine/ if it is.)

Thanks in advance.
(BTW, on my earlier Jove question:  seems to be a C compiler bug, the new
compiler is due out soon but I'll have GNU by then, so I'll go for it.)
-- 
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