Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!catfish!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: what about links? Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 02:10:09 GMT References: <31110005@hpfinote.HP.COM> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 18 dick@woodwrk.LoneStar.ORG (Richard H. Wood) writes: |aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes: |>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? All the other replies I recieved on this query indicated that both hard and soft links are supported. This came from both users and insiders. Just what I was told, I'm still at 1.3... -- Jim Wright jwright@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.