On Tue, 6 Feb 96 12:08:05 EST 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:

 > I'd say yes.  I ran into this recently while running a copy of emacs
 > built for SunOS-4.1.1/sun3 and discovered that file completion under
 > any path that exists in /emul shows only the emul stuff.  Perhaps
 > the /emul files should act as a "translucent" overlay, like union.

Hmm ... yah, the reason for that behavior is that file completion opens 
the directory, the check_alt_exist succeeds on the directory, and thus 
you only get the files in the alt.  Doing union is going to be a little 
harder...

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