Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:45:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysctl variables Message-ID: <199710021245.IAA01691@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <199710020759.RAA07942@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen McKay at "Oct 2, 97 05:59:43 pm"
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> On Thursday, 2nd October 1997, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > >> So, please, no dual universes. > > > >OK, how about Domain/OS variant symlinks? :-) > > The thoughts of a colleague when I explained how variant symlinks exceeded > even the OS/x dual symlink that we know so well: > > "I'm sure they would bite you on the bum continuously, > but just think of the job security!" > > Hmm... "The New FreeBSD, the Anti-Downsizing OS, now even harder to use!" > > Stephen. > really, you could use both commands in the same pipe -- for example (this is a quick hack from memory) att ls | att cut -f1 -d"x" | bsd cat -n since the AT&T subsystem didn't do cat -n you could get the best of both worlds on the fly. Made shell scripting interesting if you didn't specify the universe in the command. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.home | help
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