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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Logical file linking?
Message-ID: <13041@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Jun 90 20:39:03 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.190541.2119@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Jun1.190541.2119@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>   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.

No, and it's because UNIX has essentially TWO filesystems, a flat one
of "inodes" and a hierarchical one imposed on top of that using a
special inode type as a directory (whose entries are just paired names
and inode numbers).  The ProDOS filesystem has only the hierarchy.