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Article #1151Re: Symbolic Links and the AREXX: device
From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 17:42
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 17:42
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In article <14083@netnews.upenn.edu> ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
}Here's some uses for symbolic links, sorted by obviousness. If
}you think of a symbolic link as just a way of making a file point
}at another file, you miss the more exciting possibilities of the
}Amiga's device space.
}
} ln -s file sys:foo
...
Assuming that you were referring to the Unix symbolic link command, I believe
that you got *every* one backwards. The form is:
ln [-s] <thing that exists> <newname it is to have>
/Bernie\
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bbn!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Symbolic Links and the AREXX: device Message-ID: <45274@bbn.COM> Date: 6 Sep 89 17:42:23 GMT References: <14083@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 14