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From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
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Date: 21 Jan 88 19:07:27 GMT
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Posted: Thu Jan 21 14:07:27 1988
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In article <3470@umix.cc.umich.edu: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
:
:imagine a root partition that consists of a zillion symlinks, initially
:pointing to the rom disk.  to change /bin/sh, just change the symlink.
:
:macintosh toolbox calls operate on a similar principle.
:
:	peter
Better yet, just make *conditional* symbolic links. Then you can change
from system to system, from language to language with nary a trace of
difficulty. (but overhead? wow!)

-david-



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David Haynes
Geac Computers International Inc. 
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