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Re: Arla 0.8 and .@sys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J Brashear)
Mon Jul 20 18:57:17 1998
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From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
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Subject: Re: Arla 0.8 and .@sys
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> Any component of a filename which reads _exactly_ "@sys" will be translated
to
> sysname properly, but any extra chars (like the "." I like to put in front
of
> "@sys") foils the translation. A colleague wrote a routine to translate the
> first occurrence of "@sys" to sysname whatever other chars appear in name,
but
> it didn't seem to completely solve the problem. In any case, I don't know
> absolutely for sure that this piece of code is the source of the problem I'm
> seeing and besides I think a proper solution should handle more perverse
uses of
> "@sys" in filenames.
Indeed; i have several cheats which use things like Makefile.@sys
-D
