by Hey all of you!
I wondered if anybody wrote a script to (soft-) link each file
of a given directory structure to a copy of this directory
structure located anywhere in the / directory tree.
I need this for TeXing with the live filesystem from the
Infomagic December 1994 release of Slackware 2.1, because some-
body in the *linux* newsgroups posted that the CD-ROM driver
are quicker if each file is linked seperatly to it's dierectory
instead of linking the whole TeX directory of the live filesystem
with e.g.
ln -sf /cdrom/live/usr/lib/texmf /usr/lib/texmf
.
I haven't found any hints or pointers to a script of this type, I even
asked the support team of Infomagic.
So I wrote my own script. It is primarily written to solve this NTeX
problem because it also copies the necessary TeX binaries from CD to
HDD. But if you delete these 'cp' lines you can use it to copy any
directory tree of a CD and link each file from this CD directory tree
to it's directory in the copy.
If anybody is interessted in this small script, I would be pleased to
mail it to him or if requested to post it in this group.
Enjoy yourself!
Reimer
p.s.: Thank you _all_ for Linux!!!
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