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- From: ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: How to get MPW to work correctly on an A/UX volume?
- Message-ID: <ron-181292143200@zapped.afsg.apple.comP>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:34:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.040036.3300@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec16.040036.3300@cheshire.oxy.edu>,
- wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu (David J. Harr) wrote:
- >
- > As anyone who has used MPW knows, "/" is a character that is
- > used in scripting language for regular expressions. I have a
- > serious need to run MPW off of an A/UX disk, which means, of
- > course, that all full pathnames begin with "/:".
-
- If you are running A/UX 3.0, then you can rename the '/' disk under the
- Finder to be whatever you'd like. I usually rename mine to the hostname of
- the particular A/UX system. Keep in mind that under CommandShell you still
- refer to files by their traditional UNIX path name which is preceded by a
- slash denoting the root of the UNIX file system. But for MacOS type file
- name lookups, etc.. you now have a name associated with the UNIX disk
- volume.
-
- --
- Ron Flax
- ron@afsg.apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-