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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1nqnchINNerd@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <C3qzGI.38q@sugar.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu 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. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!