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From: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Pack
Keywords: unpack bugs ncr symbolic links
Message-ID: <737@toro.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 20:15:13 GMT
References: <138@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz> <485@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs)
Organization: Merrill Lynch Municipal Securities Systems Development, NY
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In article <485@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu writes:
>greg@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz writes:
>>On NCR Tower unix, release 20100, the unpack we have unpacks [...]
>>Compress isn't this stupid - it doesn't unpack these files.
>
>System V only has hard links. If you modify a file, the link is destroyed.
>(I'm probably explaining this badly).

Actually, NCR has implemented symbolic links for System V. So far as I know,
these aren't used by any of the "standard" software supplied by NCR. We use
them for development, but compared to Berkeley symbolic links, they are not
complete (particularly with respect to linking directories).

Nicholas Jacobs
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