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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Date: 12 Mar 1993 19:13:21 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
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In article <C3qzGI.38q@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
>
> How about using "//" within a symlink to indicate that the next
> component is a name?
>
>	  ln -s /usr/i18n//lang/docs /usr/docs

This would be ugly, confuse Emacs, and break current programs.

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