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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: /dev
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214857.21062@prl.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:48:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.163544.960@aosg.gsf.dec.com>, gaf@alpha.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Gerald Feldman) writes:
- > --
- > [...] While it is not the Unix way of doing thisgs, it is workable:
- > create a link (say lpt1: ) to the desired printer port. Thus, the MS-DOS
- > application may not need to change.
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- And just what directory would you put this link in? All of them?
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- I can see it now: `.', `..' and `lpt1:' -- marvellous.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.'' -- Rob Pike
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