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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Unix deficiencies/problems
Message-ID: <810049@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 16:55:34 GMT
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chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

>In article <19472@adm.BRL.MIL> Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>[more `Unix is deficient' blather]
>-Say there are a few of my friends' directories and files that are of
>-general interest:
>-
>- /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

Now Torek says just do this:

>$ joe=/home/orion/jsmith/projectA/speech
>$ splib=/home/magellan/tjones/lib/splib.a
>$ cd $joe
>$ ls $joe
>$ ar t $splib
>$ cc args -l$splib

   Okay, now I run my program that refers directly to 'speech' in an 
OPEN statement.   OOOPS!  wrong directory.