File specification regularity

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <e6mjy#paC6X=eric at snark.UUCP> by eric at snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond):
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| > (is someone else)
| > Thus, you can't be sure that every utility you use will understand
| > $NEWS_ROOT, in which case you have to remember the entire path.
| > (I may be totally wrong about Unix here. If so, please correct me.)
| 
| This is exactly what UNIX links are for, especially BSD-style symbolic
| links (which AT&T is supposedly including in 4.0).
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If I read that long message aright, they're also supporting generalized
mounts:  mount ANY directory on ANY other directory (possibly only over
the network, but I hope not).  This is in some ways even nicer than
symlinks.

++Brandon
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