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From: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Logical file linking?
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.190541.2119@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: 1 Jun 90 23:05:41 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
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   Can anybody familiar with the vagaries of GS/OS tell me whether there
might some time be a facility under ProDOS for forming logical links
between directories, as the "ln" command in UNIX. This allows a single
physical file to have directory entries in several different
subdirectories on a disk, reducing the disk space necessary to have the
convenience of keeping that file in more than one place on the disk.
   To provide a specific example, it might be handy to have such a
facility for SoundSmith files, which are routinely kept in different
subdirectories for each song. You don't really need eight identical
copies of a given sound pattern.
   Other cases where it might be useful include the BASIC.SYSTEM file,
and possibly the PRODOS file (at least Applied Engineering seems to
think so in the design of the DataTerm disk).


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 neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca              | who'd follow you into a
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