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> > Only problem is that it changes the environment code to use logical
> > name tables.
> >
> > [description of much hackery deleted]
> 
> Yeeks!  I think that price is just a little too high to pay for only
> variant symlinks.  Maybe phk is right - maybe it IS time for a genuine
> registry. :-)

Actually that's not "much hackery".  It's how the environment
should have been implemented in the first place.  Diddling your
own address space for environment is brutal.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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