Arla 0.8 and .@sys

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Tue Jul 21 00:52:38 CEST 1998


>  Any component of a filename which reads _exactly_ "@sys" will be translated
to
>  sysname properly, but any extra chars (like the "." I like to put in front
of
>  "@sys") foils the translation.  A colleague wrote a routine to translate the
>  first occurrence of "@sys" to sysname whatever other chars appear in name,
but
>  it didn't seem to completely solve the problem.  In any case, I don't know
>  absolutely for sure that this piece of code is the source of the problem I'm
>  seeing and besides I think a proper solution should handle more perverse
uses of
>  "@sys" in filenames.

Indeed; i have several cheats which use things like Makefile. at sys

-D






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