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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Logical file linking?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 23:44:20 GMT
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pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) writes:

>  Todd, I think Doug was refering to a "hard link" in which just saving
>the path name wouldn't help.  There would have to be some centralized
>index file that both could refer to, like an inode.

I realize that; my point is that it would be very easy to implement soft links
under ProDOS. For what many of us do soft links are fine and there is no need
for hard links.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu