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From: bernerus@BIRK.CS.CHALMERS.SE (Christer Bernerus)
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Subject: Re: Ez of symbolically linked files.
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Date: 28 Jun 90 12:54:34 GMT
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Excerpts from mail: 25-Jun-90 Re: Ez of symbolically link.. Bill
Cattey@athena.mit.edu

> Perhaps there should be new preferences added like:

> ActionOnSymbolicLink:  overwrite, new, query
> BackupByCopying: true, false

> -wdc

Since I started the discussion and  have been following it silently I'd
now like to say that I agree with Bill.
However I'd like to see those preferences too, otherwise it could get
rather irritating if one is doing lots of editing in a shadow tree.

Chris