Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!larry@MITRE.ARPA From: larry@MITRE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: inode number -> pathname? (4.2BSD) Message-ID: <11537@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:35:45 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11537 Posted: Fri Jul 12 16:35:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:58:44 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 15 >write one to some people at DEC. Then I found that PIP command that >allowed linking dirs (MCR PIP NEW=OLD/LI ?? trivia quiz.) I got ill >and flamed about why they should hire computer scientists at least >once in a while to help the VMS developers understand the >differences between a tree and a cyclic graph (I still use this as >an example when I teach data structures.) > >I blushed when I found it in UNIX, although I admit the discouragements >are much more obvious. > > -Barry Shein, Boston University Who ever said a directory stucture had to be a "TREE" ?? -Larry.