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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: Alias command
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Date: 13 Nov 89 17:00:52 GMT
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In article <15845@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>   Also, I fail to see how an alias is first going to delete a file,
> and *then* going to copy it to your NFS directory.

Open the file, unlink the file, cat the file to the new link, change the
modes of the new link. Even csh can do it. (grin)

---Dan