can't find 'change directory' in V8

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199906071939.PAA01836 at fw1.osis.gov>,
Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
>> >No 'change directory' mechanism is obvious to me in V8. The directory
>> >substatement of the options statement won't solve the problem - only the
>> >first occurrence of option is parsed - nor have I found a symbol
>> >substitution mechanism. All I can see to do is to fill my hierarchy of
>> >(now) named.confs full of absolute pathnames for zone files and I find
>> >that very ugly.
>> 
>> That's what you'll have to do.  You could always write a preprocessor using
>> Perl or Awk that generates your named.conf file for you.
>
>Why not use relative pathnames, still?  ISTM better/more portable/stuff.

But you still have to put these in every "filename" statement.  You can't
have lots of "directory" statements each followed by a bunch of "zone"
statements that are all relative to that directory.

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