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bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

>vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>>1. How do you use cron on the GS. It has been compiled for the GS but it
>>   still expects UNIX pathnames like /etc/cronlog and stuff like that. I
>>   don't know who ported it but they should change the pathnames!
>>   (Sure there's pathnames.h but not everybody has ORCA/C to recompile it)

>  The very latest version of cron fixed the hardcoded pathname problem; 
>in fact, I wrote cron from scratch for the IIgs, rather than port it.
>I wanted something small and tidy, and from-scratch usually gets you
>that.  I have my system set up with UNIX volume names. In the initial
>cron release I forgot to change those, but when we went through a big
>cron bug-busting session for a while I fixed that at the same time.

You mean on your GS you have a partition called /etc/ and another one called
/usr/ and another one called /dev/, etc...?

So is the new one on pindarus?

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