Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: relative pathname question! Message-ID: <5361@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 88 07:58:11 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <5103@rpp386.UUCP> <61@minya.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 20 In article <61@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: ^^^^ >In article <5103@rpp386.UUCP>, jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes: ^^^^ >> sure is, and a damned clever one at that. its called "sub-system root". >> look up chroot(2) in your unix manual. > >Too bad we don't all have source. Is there perhaps a PD version of tar >lurking about somewhere? sure is. and you guessed it, it was written by john gilmore (i think). ^^^^ it can be found in comp.sources.unix, volume 12, issues 68, 69 and 70. aren't us `john's such wonderful people 8^) -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- apologizes to Dennis O'Connor