ignoring a and b drives

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:29:41PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
| On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:54:44PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
| > "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
| > [...]
| > > > > The phrasing of your reply implies a negative, but doesn't sound like
| > > > > it takes into account that $PFDIR/filepro/ can appear in multiple
| > > > > places within $PFDATA.
| > > >
| > > > And your question forgets that, while PFDSK is a list, PFDATA and PFDIR
| > > > are not.
| > > 
| > > Doesn't matter.  If PFDSK is a list, then the programs either iteratte
| > > over all elements of it, or they don't.  If they do, and your replies
| > > imply that they do, then my question is valid, and as yet unanswered.
| > 
| > Which part of your question do you feel remains unanswered?
| 
| Well, "Only if they are both in the "/u1:/u2/appl/filepro" directory."
| certainly doesn't answer anything.  ;-)
| 
| If PFDATA on a Unix machine contains /u1:/u2, and /u1/$PFDIR/filepro
| and /u2/$PFDIR/filepro both contain fully populated filePro database
| directories with disjoint names, will the file list presented by
| dclerk, et al, contain all the files names from both directories?

PFDATA can not hold "/u1:/u2", or if it does it will
be meaningless to filePro, and nothing would be found.

Bob

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