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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cheshire.oxy.edu!wirehead
- From: wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu (David J. Harr)
- Subject: Re: How to get MPW to work correctly on an A/UX volume?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.113114.3346@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
- Summary: I'm SOOOO Stoopid!
- Keywords: stupid, slow, not on the ball, out to lunch, catatonic
- Sender: wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu (David J Harr)
- Organization: The Programmers who say NEE!
- References: <1992Dec16.040036.3300@cheshire.oxy.edu> <ron-181292143200@zapped.afsg.apple.comP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:31:14 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <ron-181292143200@zapped.afsg.apple.comP> ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.040036.3300@cheshire.oxy.edu>,
- >wirehead@cheshire.oxy.edu (David J. Harr) wrote:
- >>
- >> As anyone who has used MPW knows, "/" is a character that is
- >> used in scripting language for regular expressions. I have a
- >> serious need to run MPW off of an A/UX disk, which means, of
- >> course, that all full pathnames begin with "/:".
- >
- >If you are running A/UX 3.0, then you can rename the '/' disk under the
- >Finder to be whatever you'd like. I usually rename mine to the hostname of
- >the particular A/UX system. Keep in mind that under CommandShell you still
- >refer to files by their traditional UNIX path name which is preceded by a
- >slash denoting the root of the UNIX file system. But for MacOS type file
- >name lookups, etc.. you now have a name associated with the UNIX disk
- >volume.
- >
- >--
- >Ron Flax
- >ron@afsg.apple.com
- >Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- _SHEESH_, do I feel stupid. OK, David, repeat 100 times :
-
- I will never laugh at anyone with a simple Macintosh question again.
- I will never laugh at anyone with a simple Macintosh question again.
- I will never laugh at anyone with a simple Macintosh question again.
- I will never laugh at anyone with a simple Macintosh question again.
- I will never laugh at anyone...
-
- David.
-
- "My definition of happiness is being famous for your financial ability
- to indulge in every kind of excess." -- Calvin.
-
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