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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0
Message-ID: <417@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 30 Aug 89 08:43:30 GMT
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In article <1989Aug24.221123.4188@mdivax1.uucp> hiebert@mdivax1.uucp (Graeme Hiebert) writes:
>In article <8381@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>> ...
>> (And for anyone who may think that file ids are required for the new
>> symbolic link feature, which *is* useful -- think again.  All you need
>> to store is what UNIX stores, the full path name.)
>> 
>
>(By the way, for what little difference it makes, UNIX stores the relative
>path name.)

BSD Unix stores whatever you want as a 'symbolic link', which is just a text.
It can be an absolute or relative path, or your mother's bank account number.

Just being pedantic.

Ge' Weijers.

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Ge' Weijers                                    Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,   (uunet.uu.net!cs.kun.nl!ge)
University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1         
6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands              tel. +3180612483 (UTC-2)