[4075] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xmosaic wrapper script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Thu Sep 9 00:20:27 1993
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 21:26:42 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: eddietwo@athena.mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 08 Sep 93 21:21:06 -0400.
<9309090121.AA02215@w20-575-23.MIT.EDU>
> I'm writing a context-sensitive hypertext help system for
> xzewd which is based on xmosaic, and i'd like to ask a favor. Could
> you change the xmosaic wrapper script that loads the app-defaults file
> so that it uses AFS paths? Otherwise, I'll have to have yet another
> script lying around that attaches sipb before it runs xmosaic...
No. You're asking us to violate a necessary abstraction for no good
reason. Your script can test if sipb is mounted, and attach sipb if it
is not. It's not going to slow anything down that much.
-Calvin
