Good question. Happily, erasing an alias is less pernicious than
alias =. '' :)
Clearly, if mapped names are different than nouns as suggested by
At 16:57 -0400 2007/04/01, Eric Iverson wrote:
If you want the behavior of normal nouns then use normal nouns.
there needs to be some way to identify them. Perhaps mapped names
really should have a new name class associated with them (although
that seems like an odd way to address the problems that brought
all this up...)
-- joey
At 13:24 +0200 2007/04/16, david alis wrote:
How does one determine whether a noun stands for a mapped file?
When unmapall_jmf_ returns non-zero results how does one find out
which nouns must be erased before the file can be properly unmapped
and released?
Sections 46 and 47 of the Mapped File Lab demonstrate the need to
erase nouns that are aliases - but there is no advice about
determining which nouns are aliases.
Regards
David
Mon Apr 16 01:41:05 HKT 2007 , Joey K Tuttle wrote:
Unless the "nouns" are mapped files..... sigh
Question, should
> 4!:0 <'mapped_name'
return something other than 0??
Might be useful in mapping potential mine fields...
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