Soft link pathname conversion for Linux and Unix

[Kevin Kofler]

John Horne <john.horne <at> plymouth.ac.uk> writes:
> Thanks for the reply, but sorry this isn't going to work. As said, this
> must work under Unix, and Solaris, for example, uses a standard Bourne
> shell, not bash. Constructs such as 'symval=$(' won't work. (I can't
> change shell either before anyone asks )

No backticks either???

        Kevin Kofler