Have they given up?

[Trevor Smith]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:59:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    It doesn't have to.  OS/2 doesn't do it.  I move a program it is broken
>because it has drive letters hard coded everywhere.  With Linux there are no

Shrug. Whatever, it works on my OS/2 system. If some
WIndows/DOS/LINUX developer writes a program that stores some
directory name in a text file somewhere instead of using the "OS/2
way" so OS/2 can automagically keep track of things, it's not OS/2's
fault.

>drive letters to worry about.  Since it is all on a VFS the path remains the

This is irrelevant to my example. Stick /mnt/win/data in an init file
somewhere, then drag and drop the program from /mnt/win/data to
/mnt/win/data2. In linux does the program continue to work? In OS/2
it does (assuming it's not some DOS port).

>same even though the physical drive underneath may change, even to the point
>of not being on the same machine at all.

Yes, Linux has a superior method of disk naming.


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