Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!umix!honey
From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <3389@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 87 13:46:17 GMT
References: <2168@isis.UUCP>
Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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In article <2168@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
>I tried to sway Mel Pleasant toward a "smarter" algorithm such as
>	if original-path has the form ...!site1!site2!user,
>	and a "better" path to site2 can be found than via ...!site1,
>	then *verify* that the site2 found in the maps is the same as the
>	site2 meant in original-path by checking whether the site2 in
>	the maps lists site1 as a neighbor.  If not, use original-path.

folow that line of thinking long enough, and you'll reinvent
pathparse.  maybe pathparse \is/ the solution ... ?

	peter