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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel names
Date: 24 Sep 1993 11:50:09 +0200
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In article <michaelv.748757186@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
|> If you're so concerned about being able to access your kernel as
|> /vmunix, you can try this neato trick that modern unices enable us to
|> do!
|> 
|> 	ln -s /netbsd /vmunix
|> 
|> 		or
|> 
|> 	ln -s /386bsd /vmunix
|> 
|> Knock yourself out...

Now that you mention it, this was exactly what I did with 386bsd 0.0 where
most of the stuff still insisted on opening /vmunix.

Bernard