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From: rpd@M.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Richard Draves)
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Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
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Date: 23 Jan 88 21:23:56 GMT
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In fact, Vice (a file system developed at the Information Technology Center here)
implements conditional symbolic links.  The string @cputype gets substituted by
the machine type of the client requesting the file.  This feature is very useful.

Rich