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Re: The .@sys question again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Douglas)
Mon Mar 1 14:37:48 1999
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From: Luke Douglas <darkwing@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: The .@sys question again
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Here's the case where I noticed it:
Mathematica creates configuration directories ~/.Mathematica.sysname and
accesses it through the symlink ~/.Mathematica.@sys . Mathematica gives a
fatal startup error if it can't read its home directory. I don't get the
startup error under Transarc AFS, but I do under Arla; and I can verify the
cause by noting that "cd ~/.Mathematica" or "cd ~/.Mathematica.@sys" fails.
I can get a normal startup, though, by making a symlink from ~/.Mathematica
to ~/.Mathematica.sysname .
At 07:45 PM 3/1/99 +0100, you wrote:
>For me, the behaviour you describe works. Do you have a testcase for
>when this doesn't work?
>
>/Magnus
>map@stacken.kth.se
>
