Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <1989Aug3.234943.13511@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1143@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <1989Jul28.232622.1036@servalan.uucp> <5360@ficc.uu.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 23:49:43 GMT

In article <5360@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Probably the 
>> nastiest one to deal with is link().
>
>You could look at the VMS code in B news. Instead of creating a link it creates
>a file containing the name of the file to link to... a symbolic link.

C News actually has some limited support for this, but we assume that
symlink() exists and works.  That is, we don't supply the underlying
machinery but if it's there we're prepared to use it.  Note that that stuff
hasn't been well tested.  See notebook/vms for some details.
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