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"Jason Handby" <jasonh@NOSPAMbigfoot.com> writes:
> NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Mar 2000 13:48:54 GMT
>
> Aaron wrote:
> > An alternative to having lots of environment variables in order to allow
> > parts of the directory tree to be changed for various purposes, while
> > sharing the rest, would be a mechanism for generating a copy of the
> > whole system made entirely of symbolic links to a "master" copy.
> > Then one could change bits of the copy by deleting the symbolic links
> > and replacing them with new versions of the files.
> > ....
> My RedHat 6.1 distribution has a program called lndir which seems to be for
> exactly this purpose :-) I don't know how widely available this is in other
> flavours of UNIX though...
It's in Solaris. Thanks for the pointer.
And as you say it is clear from the man file that it was created for
the sort of purpose I mentioned.
> >Now, will this cross the mail->news gateway and get into comp.lang.pop
> >
>
> It seems to have worked :-)
Alas, it now seems that only files posted to pop-forum at Birmingham
get through that gateway. I have asked for this to be investigated.
Aaron
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