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From: irick@ecn.purdue.edu (GarBear Irick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Levels of soft links in BSD4.3
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.045427.2307@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 04:54:27 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Society for Better Computing
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Just curious....  Does anyone know how many levels of soft links I can use
in 4.3BSD?  Something like

lns -s ONE TWO
lns -s TWO ONE
cat ONE

gives the "too many levels of symbolic links" message.  How far can we go???

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