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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unix made easy (was Re: globbing furniture)
Message-ID: <3148@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 91 15:55:31 GMT
References: <6388@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Jan23.003505.21615@dsd.es.com> <48388@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <48388@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:

| The Mac's system 7.0 has symbolic links. You create a 'copy' of a file,
| and drag it whereever you want. 

  Could you explain a little more? I can't guess what a Mac filename
would look like, and from articles I thought they were hard links. If
they are symbolic, what happens when I double click on a link to a file
which isn't there? Do I toast the finder, or ...?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  "I'll come home in one of two ways, the big parade or in a body bag.
   I prefer the former but I'll take the latter" -Sgt Marco Rodrigez