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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:26:25 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole>,
"Pierre Y. Dampure" <pdampure@dial.pipex.com> writes:
>
>
> Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote in article
> <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>...
>
>> What's bugging me is this: why create another directory and link it to
>> /usr/ports? Why not just lndir /usr/ports directly?
>>
>> What am I not getting here?
>>
>
> I suspect the issue is : where would you generate your object files /
> executables ?
Ah, OK. I think I get it now. So, in other words, a
"lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports" would result in a read-only
/usr/ports dir, correct?
Thanks.
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Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads