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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
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Date: 1 Sep 89 16:19:05 GMT
References: <1410027@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <8382@etana.tut.fi> <4147@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <4147@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <8382@etana.tut.fi>, pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes:
>> 	Guess why Unix doesn't allow you make hard links to directories.
>But it does.
huh? The last version of Unix that allowed you to was long ago. I just
tried it here on my sun and it won't let me. 
What kinda Unix you got out there, peter?
Or do you know some good trick i don't know. Bypassing link(2) is not
kosher as a good trick, btw.
ron
p.s. transcript follows:

lois> ln bin binxx
bin is a directory