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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: generating code to run multiple tar
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Date: 28 Apr 89 19:34:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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Another way to handle different capabilities is to create a directory
containing files corresponding to each capability. (Isn't there
something like this in the latest Unixes?)

That way, things like shells can test them as easily as programs.

	/etc/capabilities/symlinks
	/etc/capabilities/longnames     (containing the number of characters)
	/etc/capabilities/cpp           (containing the path for cpp)
	/etc/capabilities/termcap       (containing the library path)
	/etc/capabilities/terminfo      (containing the library path)
	/etc/capabilities/coff

And the possibilities are, unfortunately, endless. :-)

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Bill                            { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill