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From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Amiga soft links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
Message-ID: <2031@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jul 89 12:56:53 GMT
References: <8906300342.AA12274@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <398@xdos.UUCP> <7190@cbmvax.UUCP> <402@xdos.UUCP> <7205@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <7205@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	Currently, Amiga softlinks will work like Unix softlinks.  Most 
>probable implementation is as a file with the "softlink" protection bit set,
>and the file containing the string for the link, unless I can figure a way
>to worm it into the header (for short strings).

	I hope you'll include an AmigaDOS program to do this automatically
so the particular implementation is transparent.  That is, the user
wouldn't have to edit a file, insert the string, exit the editor, and
set the softlink bit.  Instead, typing:

		slink fromFile toFile

would create "toFile" containing the string "fromFile" and with its
bit set.
	But of course you've already thought of this.... :-)
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