Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!well!shf
From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PATH: and (pseudo)announcement of RDF:
Message-ID: <7497@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 23:06:28 GMT
References: <8810261744.AA28807@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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It seems to me that the correct way to implement directory searches on a
"PATH:" would be to merge all the directories in the path into one big
directory space with instances of files occuring early in the path
overriding instances later in the path.  For example, if your path as
defined by PATH:x consisted of the directories A and B and there were
files both of name "file" in both directories, then the directory
search applied to PATH:x would return the instance of "file" that an
application would see if it searched for PATH:x/file, and ignore the other
one.

Food for thought.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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