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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: "Official" directory tree
Message-ID: <4385@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 30 Oct 89 19:23:19 GMT
References: <4381@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
\... I was having a lot of trouble with
\<minix/*.h>  etc.  Having two copies, one in /usr/include and one in 
\../h became unmanageable.  They couldn't be links because I have them
\on different disks.   [...]

I think there exists a neat solution to this problem...
(It was 1 of the Operating Systems class assignments, about 2 years ago!)
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A symbolic link is a POINTER to a file, | Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
 a hard link is the file system's GOTO. | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart