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From: ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
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Date: 12 Jul 89 00:20:19 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.
Could you be a little bit more specific?