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Subject: 
Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:06:30 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:55:30 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:

[relative pathing] will bite you if you're not careful.

How so?  Other than the standard problem of changing the directory
structure, and not updating all the soft-links.

My experience is that hard-linking bites harder and sooner.  And often
requires tetanus shots.

Now, don't get me started on file systems which use case-sensitive file
names.  That always gets me on hyperlinks and <img> tags.

Steve



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  Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
 
(...) As is right and proper. Ones that aren't case-sensitive bite hard. Solution: Never, Ever, Use capitals in a file designed to be published over the internet. Avoid elsewhere. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
 
NS Comm 4 or 4.5 has the same behaviour. If you're relative pathing and you started on your HD, you can navigate all over it, no worries. Good for testing... BUT! This will bite you if you're not careful. But relative paths are better if you can use (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)

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