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Article #692Re: Why touch can't follow symbolic links?
From: David Lemson
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:36
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:36
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> > > In article <1992Aug12.021707.29856@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes: > > Suppose I build symbolic link using command 'ln', > say, 'ln -s /usr/local /home/yuan/local' ( in host ccnext) > Then when I touch from ccnext2 to ccnext, > switch to /home/yuan/local (in Touch), what touch shows > is just a text file icon with question mark in it. > Obviously, it doesn't follow the link. > Is it? > > Don't use Touch. It's buggy and can crash your machine hard. Supposedly someone (Marble?) is re-writing it and will release it sometime in the future. As for now, check out GatorFTP+ from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It does a similar job, more robustly. (by using the ftp protocol, which will follow symbolic links, by the way). This should be a FAQ, too, I think. -- David Lemson (312) 732-4741 FNBC Sys Admin (Summer) UIUC NeXT Campus Consultant(rest of the time) E-mail to: lemson@fnbc.com NeXTMail accepted
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!juliet!news From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Why touch can't follow symbolic links? Message-ID: <1992Aug12.153618.7999@fnbc.com> Sender: news@fnbc.com Reply-To: lemson@fnbc.com Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA References: <1992Aug12.021707.29856@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:36:18 GMT Lines: 26