Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: yet another 1.4 request
Keywords: soft links
Message-ID: <4003@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 9 Jul 89 13:30:06 GMT
References: <0933.AA0933@caleb> <1989Jun16.151408.8382@ziebmef.uucp> <18304@usc.edu>
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Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <18304@usc.edu>, addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison) writes:
> In article <3959@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >link devs:system-configuration workbench:devs/system-configuration

> >	Now you don't to copy system-configuration back to df0:
> >	when you have a hard disk that doesn't autoboot.

> Unfortunately, AmigaDOS will try to access devs:system-configuration through
> the workbench:devs/system-configuration link _BEFORE_ you have a chance to
> mount your harddisk.  Nice idea, though.

You have it backwards. When you boot from the floopy, devs:system-configuration
is workbench:system-configuration. Then you mount dh0:, and typically assign
all your devices to dh0:. So now devs:system-configuration is in dh0:devs. If
you softlink that file back to the original workbench:system-configuration
it'll get correctly saved on workkbench:, rather than dh0:.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
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