Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: File System suggestions Message-ID: <1236@sugar.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 06:16:23 EST Article-I.D.: sugar.1236 Posted: Mon Dec 7 06:16:23 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 01:41:25 EST References: <2086@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <387@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 19 Summary: Assign. > [symbolic links so you can move files around behind a program's back] Isn't that what Assign is for? I'd be more interested in a symbolic (late binding) Assign. I'd like to be able to do things like "assign include: Aztec:include" in my startup sequence without it asking me to insert Aztec: then & there. Right now assignments are handled by throwing around locks on directories. An alternative that would let you not bind an assignment until it's actually used (OK to turn it into a lock then, though) would be a benefit. -- -- Feature: a neat idea that the programmer thinks of. -- Benefit: a neat idea that the user thinks of. -- -- Not all features are benefits. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.