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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: named pipes (was: Finger and .plan, .project)
- Message-ID: <13815@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 21:05:52 GMT
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- >: ln -s ~/.plan /plans/$USER
- >
- >Wow... Another good idea that Domain/OS has had for years...
- >
- >It does away with things like "5bin, 5usr" etc... you can have
- >/bsd4.3/[bin, usr, etc] and /sys5.3/[bin, usr, etc] and then you
- >can "ln -s /usr /'($SYSTYPE)'/usr"...
-
- Except that in at least one system with "5bin" and the like, "5bin" is
- *not* a complete set of System V versions of programs; it's just a set
- of programs where the SV and BSD versions couldn't be (or weren't)
- merged into one common version. In that system, there's no notion that
- you have two completely separate BSD and SV universes, with a brick wall
- between them - a notion that seems to be dying off, and frankly, *I*
- sure as hell won't miss it....
-
- The general "object-oriented" file system in Aegis seemed like a nice
- idea (not having used it, I've no idea what problems it had in
- practice), though.
-