Arla 0.8 and .@sys

[Aaron M. Ucko]

<dave at bnl.gov> (David Morrison) writes:

> 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.

BTW, Transarc's clients seem to expand @sys exactly when it's the last
part of a path component, so you're overshooting a bit in the other
direction.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu at mit.edu> (finger amu at monk.mit.edu)