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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: NCR's symbolic links (was Re: Pack)
Keywords: NCR symbolic links
Message-ID: <74@harald.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 11:50:52 GMT
References: <138@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz> <485@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <737@toro.UUCP> <966@levels.sait.edu.au> <143@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz>
Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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greg@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz (super) writes:

>In article <966@levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
>>In article <737@toro.UUCP>, nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) writes:
>>> Actually, NCR has implemented symbolic links for System V.
>>
>>NCR's implementation of symbolic links is almost unusable.  There is no
>>way of telling if a link is a symbolic link or a hard link;...

Even then, the latest man page for /usr/ucb/ls (Page 1, Feb. 1989) still
insists on, that -F will mark symbolic links with '@'. Does it work? NO
Does the assembler command swbeg generate correct code? NO
Can you put a comment line after swbeg? NO
Can you change a register value with adb? NO
Does the C modifier work? NO
Is there a man page for the alternative assembler? NO
Can you write assembler on a TOWER? ????
-- 
Jan B. Andersen                              ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")