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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple questions on bind semantics
From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:37:57 +0200
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>>   Anyway, is this how one accomplishes what I was trying 
>>   to do (bind /existing-file /non-existing-file):

In Plan B we used to have a prefix table (now it's gone).
There you could say something like

/a/path/I/just/invented -goes-to-> a-file-server

This has the net effect that you can invent paths.
It was not that useful. I mean, you can perfectly do without
inventing files. Sometimes I missed this to patch up CDs, but
that's a different issue.

hth