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Subject: Re: Filesystem Links.
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Date: 30 Jun 89 18:33:19 GMT
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In article <18765@louie.udel.EDU> KENNEDAM%WWPS@dupont.com (Tony Kennedy) writes:
>Would someone explain the difference (or similarity) between Unix links and
>VAX/VMS logicals? In VMS I can define a logical to point to a file on a system
>across decnet or on another disk and all I have to do is refer to it by the
>logical name. Are links the same/similar/completely different? 
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>|    Tony Kennedy      | Any resemblance       |     /// AMIGA           | 
>| INTERNET : kennedam%wwps%dupont.com@relay.cs.net                       |  

The equivalent of a hard link in UNIX is the SET FILE/ENT= command
(which BTW works better in v5+ than before but it can still bite you).
I do not really know about the soft link, I don't think there is a VMS
equivalent. I can not find a equivalence for logicals, however 
some shells may allow the use of something like them, but there is no
kernel support.

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