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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:03:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Dash options
Message-ID: <20171129140326.6298D18C096@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Charles Anthony

    > Entry points are usually defined as "foo$bar", where "foo" is the
    > segment name, and "bar" an entry point in the segment symbol table. I
    > believe that the degerate case of "foo$" is treated as "foo$foo" by the
    > shell.

So I'm curious about how this, and additional names, interact. (For those who
aren't familiar with Multics, a segment [file, sort of] can have multiple
names. This is sort of like 'hard links' in Unix, except that in Multics one
name, the "primary name" is very slightly preeminent. See here:

  http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics/mdds/mdd006.compout

page 2-5, for more, if you're interested.)

So if I have a segment with primary name 'foo', and additional names 'bar' and
'zap', and I say 'zap' to the Multics shell, I assume it does a call to
zap$zap, which finds the segment with the primary name 'foo', and calls the
'zap' entry therein?


    > Multics rulez; UNIX droolz

Dude, you clearly have Very Large brass ones to send that to this list! :-)

      Noel