OT - Re: [Gllug] Office software

William Palfreman william at palfreman.com
Sun Nov 18 04:07:34 UTC 2001


On 17 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:

> the way exceptions may affect control flow &c.

Hooray for the real et cetera!  ln -s "/etc/" "/&c"

Of course the real hard case makes the link the other way round to
provide backward compatibility for programs expecting /etc/ to exist at
all.  :-)

Having to use "" quotes does make &c a bit of a pain on the command
line, though, so I suppose this innovation will not take off. 

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