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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: replacing the desktop metaphor (Why any metaphor?)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <16621@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 17:01:29 GMT
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	You can do this with UNIX (at least Berkeley UNIX, don't use SissyV
much around here).  There is a system call called "chroot" that allows you to
set a place in the file system as the root of the file system.  When we were
running Ultrix and needed to run things in a 4.3 environment we justed used
a program called "root43".  It isn't quite as convenient as A:, B: but it is
more powerful in that you can use an arbitrary directory as the new root.

James Conley
Indiana University Computer Science
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu