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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Reorganising the Unix Archive?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:49:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201702181849.v1IInoD2024605@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

> That's what the Unix Tree is for!

Yes, but it doesn't have cross links as far as I know.
What I have in mind is effectively one more entry in
the root. Call it "union" perhaps. In a leaf of that
tree, say /union/usr/src/cmd/find, will ne a page that
links to all the "find sources in the other systems.

I don't know the range of topologies in the Unix Tree.
For example, some systems may have /src while others
have /usr/src. That could be hidden completely by
simply not revealing the path names. Alternatively
every level in the union tree could record its cousins
in the various systems, as well as its children
in the union system.

Doug


             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-18 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-18 18:49 Doug McIlroy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-02-19  0:12 Doug McIlroy
2017-02-20  1:48 ` William Corcoran
2017-02-20  2:33   ` Doug McIlroy
2017-02-20  2:52     ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-20 18:06   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-18  3:30 Doug McIlroy
2017-02-18  4:40 ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-18 17:19   ` Random832
2017-02-18  0:12 Warren Toomey
2017-02-18  0:21 ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-18  0:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-18  1:09   ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-18 17:17 ` Random832

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