In <529cd1c5.9030...@tulsagrammer.com>, on 12/02/2013 at 12:30 PM, Eric Chevalier <et...@tulsagrammer.com> said:
>I believe the issue some people are trying to address with a Unix >catalog is the case where you DON'T know the full path. A central repository won't solve that problem. >I know it's called "stroganoff.txt" Unless it's your only recipe, you've got a problem. >Now suppose I have some sort of index file where the key is the >unqualified file name and the data is the path to that file. Such facilities already exist, without the need for a central repository. They aren't very helpful for background scripts. What I see as more helpful would be Multics-style search rules (STEPCAT on steroids), but that still leaves the issue of getting the right one when there are duplicates. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN