> On 14 Nov 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > > 3.something. And it required the mounpoint to be immediate
> > > subdirectory of root.
> >
> > Nope.
>
> Nope _what_? 3.30 definitely had JOIN, JOIN.EXE _did_ check for the depth
> of mountpoint (want a reverse-engineered C source?) and while you could
> do it by hands it was _bad_ idea. Reason: the same table kept the cwd for
> each disk. It didn't take much to trick chdir() into buggering the whole
> thing big way.
DOS didn't always check the relevant length limits. That's a bug, not a
missing feature.
> man csh.
Nothing surprising there about ~. (Though I certainly never use csh.)
>Ever used ~ftp in scripts?
I don't think so.
>Ever moved the sucker around?
Not without compatibility symlinks.
>Exactly.
Exactly WHAT?
> 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:
Oh, you mean it gives you a very limited version of symlinks.
MfG Kai
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