The .@sys question again

[Luke Douglas]

(oops...forgot to send this to the list)
Here's the case where I noticed it:

Mathematica creates configuration directories ~/.Mathematica.sysname and
accesses it through the symlink ~/.Mathematica. at sys . Mathematica gives a
fatal startup error if it can't read its home directory. I don't get the
startup error under Transarc AFS, but I do under Arla; and I can verify the
cause by noting that "cd ~/.Mathematica" or "cd ~/.Mathematica. at sys" fails.
I can get a normal startup, though, by making a symlink from ~/.Mathematica
to ~/.Mathematica.sysname .

At 07:45 PM 3/1/99 +0100, you wrote:
>For me, the behaviour you describe works. Do you have a testcase for
>when this doesn't work?
>
>/Magnus
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>