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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
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Date: 23 Jan 88 20:46:49 GMT
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In article <1897@russell.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@russell.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>Conditional symbolic links would be not as bad as some people think
>they are. With NFS, you can have file systems shared among different
>architectures (VAX, Sun, ...).

Agreed.  In fact, Apollo supports conditional links and they work fine.
Maybe sun could be talked into adding them to SunOS?

-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu