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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true hackers: objects and types
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 03:50:24 GMT
Message-ID: <C4FEo2.8no@sugar.neosoft.com>
References: <1993Mar20.145007.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <JKH.93Mar20153113@whisker.lotus.ie> <ARNEJ.93Mar24113744@chanur.imf.unit.no>
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In article <ARNEJ.93Mar24113744@chanur.imf.unit.no> arnej@imf.unit.no (Arne Henrik Juul) writes:
> I also think that variant links using environment variables is a BAD
> idea.

I think that's a reasonable conclusion. How about variant links using
some other set of per-process/per-uid symbolic name space?
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.