Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
Message-ID: <4004@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 9 Jul 89 13:33:39 GMT
References: <17422@gryphon.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <17422@gryphon.COM>, ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
> Why not make "Soft-SoftLinks"?  Have a command like assign that will let you
> assign an entire path to another.  Whenever the dos.library saw one of these
> comming through, it could expand it.  No handler/aplication changes needed!
> Wouldn't slow anything down.

Intel's OpenNET implements this under Xenix. It calls them redirects. They are
in every way inferior to symbolic links.
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