Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: File specification regularity Message-ID: <12844@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 20 Oct 88 23:09:50 GMT References: <3981@enea.se> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.vms Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 22 As quoted from by eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond): +--------------- | > (is someone else) | > Thus, you can't be sure that every utility you use will understand | > $NEWS_ROOT, in which case you have to remember the entire path. | > (I may be totally wrong about Unix here. If so, please correct me.) | | This is exactly what UNIX links are for, especially BSD-style symbolic | links (which AT&T is supposedly including in 4.0). +--------------- If I read that long message aright, they're also supporting generalized mounts: mount ANY directory on ANY other directory (possibly only over the network, but I hope not). This is in some ways even nicer than symlinks. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allbery@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct (But the aliases are NOT on UUNET yet, use the aliases at backbone sites!)