Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iczer-1!emm From: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Logical file linking? Message-ID: <318@iczer-1.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 90 02:55:39 GMT References: <1990Jun1.190541.2119@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <13041@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Jun4.014522.1843@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Reply-To: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) Organization: The Kurowulf Empire Lines: 19 In article 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 do not have a GS so I may be way off the mark here. Why can't a program just write a new directory entry that points to the same data blocks as the orginal? -- Edward M. Markowski -- iczer-1 Administrator ...the garage is flooded from the sprinkler. It also left a man's decapitated body, VOICE : (201) 478-6052 lying on the floor next to his own severed head. UUCP : ..!uunet!iczer-1!emm A head which at this time has no name.