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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links and the AREXX: device
Summary: Dumb, dumb, dumb ...
Message-ID: <13557@well.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 01:08:12 GMT
References: <14083@netnews.upenn.edu> <45274@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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+-- cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
| In article <> ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
| }	ln -s file sys:foo
|           ...
| Assuming that you were referring to the Unix symbolic link command, I believe
| that you got *every* one backwards.  The form is:
|      ln [-s] <thing that exists> <newname it is to have>

This is one really DUMB thing that has bothered me more and more recently.
Mechanical engineers long ago invented polarized (or idiot-proof) plugs to
make it impossible to plug things in backwards.  Why can't the computer
clerisy come up with idiot-proof arguments lists!?  My favorite is "strcpy;"
I can *never* remember the order for the arguments.  And getting them wrong
will fry your code as bad as shorting any op-amp.

Pardon my outburst.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
		Action by HAVOC		(ferguson@metaphor.com)