Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 1997 20:51:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] FSSTND
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> That would work, except that tags are not to indicate anything other
> than type.
> That's why [os:opendos] [os:linux].
> Now, [os:app:linux] would work.
Ugh.  That last one is counter-intuitive.  It implies that app is the os,
not linux.  How about [os-opendos:app]?

Of course, the more I think about this, the more I think we don't need
support for multiple OSes in the paths.dir file.  If this system is a
success, the other OSes can use a different file.

> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Evan Dickinson
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> > 
> > > should probably be [os-opendos] [os-linux]
> > > type tags in paths.dir file too.
> > 
> > How about something like this:
> > 
> > [opendos:app]
> > c:\dosapp
> > 
> > [linux:app]
> > /usr/bin

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