Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: what about links? Message-ID: <1896@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 25 Aug 90 22:43:09 GMT Lines: 32 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes: >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? They are slated to go in, but have not, as yet, made it. I would not call hard links 'useless', since I do use them, and put them to good use. I have a C2: directory that I include in my path, and within it, I make hard links to my 1.3 commands that work. >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... Sorry, not yet. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+