In <[email protected]>, on 12/02/2013
at 12:30 PM, Eric Chevalier <[email protected]> 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.
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