Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!digi.lonestar.org!woodwrk!dick From: dick@woodwrk.LoneStar.ORG (Richard H. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: what about links? Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 12:01:07 GMT References: <31110005@hpfinote.HP.COM> Lines: 25 >In article <31110005@hpfinote.HP.COM> aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes: >In article , jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes: >> Not on the list: links! Did this make it into 2.0? Are they soft links >> or hard links? How are they used? > >Hard links: Yes (Appears to soak up a disk block per link) >Soft links: No. Nein. Nyet. (The manual gives HARD/SOFT options, MAKELINK ? > does not. And they are hard links. MAKELINK does not work across ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > partitions.) ^^^^^^^^^^ How very sad. That makes it rather useless, doesn't it?---for multiple drive installations, like mine, that is. :-( Any chance of soft links making it in, say, release 2.1? > >Alexander Elkins -- Richard H. Wood dick@woodwrk.LoneStar.ORG 246 Bancroft Drive East uunet!digi!woodwrk!dick Garland, Texas, 75040 "Become an ORGAN DONOR" +1 214 530 2595 \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/