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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: Unix deficiencies/problems
Message-ID: <2449@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 May 89 01:54:36 GMT
References: <19472@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
\...
\ /home/orion/jsmith/projectA/speech
\ /home/magellan/tjones/lib/splib.a

\With logical names, I could define the first as "joe" and the second as
\"splib", and do things like:

\ cd joe
\ ls joe
\ ar t splib
\ cc myprog -lsplib

Bourne shell:

	joe=/home/orion/jsmith/projectA/speech

	cd $joe
etc.
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