Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers | Date | 15 Nov 1999 01:40:38 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911141221440.2939-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> By author: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > man csh. Ever used ~ftp in scripts? Ever moved the sucker around? Exactly. > Now, replace it with the setup when package foo sits in the directory > bar\baz and you bind x: to bar\baz. Setting all pathes in config as > absolute on x: >
I had a small login script on my DOS machine which would set up a SUBST drive U: to point to \USER\<foo> where <foo> was whatever the user entered at the login prompt. No password, since DOS didn't have security anyway. Then I set up all apps to keep their datafiles on U:<something>.
ANVIN'S LAW: NO MACHINE AS BIG AS A DESKTOP COMPUTER IS TRULY SINGLE USER.
Worked fine until Windows came along and all apps started actively encouraging people to *save their files into the program directory*!
AAARGH!
-hpa
-- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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