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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /home
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:14:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180928001409.GH75165@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A1A27D12-7A36-4507-9CB4-C73F0B5AE84A@quintile.net>

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On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 21:50:58 +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> At college we had /h but that may be an interdata/edition7
> thing. mine was /h/beng4/ssimon.

This sounds like a workaround for short pathname limits, particularly
with System V.  I had a file system mounted on /S for the same reason
decades ago.

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-28  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-27 20:50 Steve Simon
2018-09-27 22:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-28  0:14 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-09-28  0:19   ` Warner Losh

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