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Digital copies of the latest revision of this document may be obtained through Prospero as SPMquot/papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/doc/user-manual.PS.Z", in the #/INET/EDU/ISI/swa virtual system, or through Anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as SPMquot/pub/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z"

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. CCR-8619663), the Washington Technology Center, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency under NASA Cooperative Agreement NCC-2-539. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any of the funding agencies. The authors may be reached at USC/ISI, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, California 90292-6695, USA. Telephone +1 (310) 822-1511, email SPMquotinfo-prospero@isi.edu".

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...directories

To distinguish them from directories and links in traditional systems, and because they are often illusory, directories and links in Prospero are sometimes referred to as virtual directories and virtual links.

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...executables.

By default, the installation directory is /usr/pfs/bin.

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...line.

If you want to search for an item beginning with a literal ?, then precede it with a backslash to escape it. If you want to search for something beginning with a backslash, then precede it with another backslash to excape it.

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...attribute

See the Attributes appendix to the Prospero Protocol specification for the definition of this attribute. XXX Also, note that this feature is broken in the current release.

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...vfsetup

Because it changes environment variables, this command only has an affect when its output is read by the shell. If vfsetup.source has been sourced (vfsetup.profil for SH users), then vfsetup is an alias which will call the vfsetup executable in the appropriate manner.

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...host.

We call these names Host-Specific Object Names, or HSONAMEs.

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...link

When using vls to list the results of an archie query, the -c and the -A options should be specified.

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...vcd

Because it changes environment variables, this command only has an effect when its output is read by the shell. vcd is an alias which calls the p__vcd executable in the appropriate manner.

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...access

The SYSTEM access control list is separate from the OVERRIDE list which can not be removed.

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...holes

By no means should vget or vcache be installed setuid root as these command write files to paths specified by the user.

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...database.

Caveat: The common UNIX shells require you to quote the # in the -p# option in order to keep it from being interpreted as the start of a comment.

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...administrator

Systems which are running the release as distributed are part of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute guest site. The site administrator is pfs-administrator@isi.edu. This applies even if your system is running a server.

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