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- From: zpope@osf.org (William Pope)
- Subject: Re: named pipes (was: Finger and .plan, .project)
- In-Reply-To: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 29 Jul 92 21:05:52 GMT
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- <1992Jul29.150454.2133@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> <13815@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:55:57
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- In article <13815@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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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....
-
- Agreed. Not that there was a brick wall between the two in Doman/OS. A sys
- admin could set it up that way if they chose to but in practice not that
- many people did.
-
- >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.
-
- Was nice if a little hard to program to (IMHO).
-
- Now if this DFS would just catch on maybe I could work out an alias for "//"
- :^)
-
- =bill
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