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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
Message-ID: <4466@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 18:32:11 GMT
References: <19465@gryphon.COM> <13842@super.ORG>
Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <13842@super.ORG> rminnich@super.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
_>In article <19465@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) writes:
_>>fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
_[ interesting things deleted]
_>Personally, i think hard links to directorys are Evil. 
_>Read the BSTJ on Unix (1978) for a comment on such things.

Hmmm...Now if we put hard links into AmigaOS, and allowed them
to work with directories then we would end up with a filesystem
network as opposed to a filesystem tree :-)

What is the "root" of a filesystem then? or a parent directory?

I bet there are lots of neat trick you could play on programs that
expect a simple filesystem tree, heh heh heh ....
Backup programs in particular whould go crazy!


On a more serious note, something I would like to see, and would
effectivly add paths to anything are directory continues, as
opposed to links.
"continue sys:libs with someotherdisk:libs"

Then when you "DIR SYS:LIBS", the extires in someotherdisk:libs
would also appear.
I would not want to be the one to write the error
checking (loop detection) and other eveil things for this though :-)
REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   jap@frith.cl.msu.edu