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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unix made easy (was Re: globbing furniture)
Message-ID: <48503@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 91 02:52:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.003505.21615@dsd.es.com> <48388@apple.Apple.COM> <3148@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <3148@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>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 ...?

No, it just says that it couldn't find the original- tough luck (it uses
nicer words than that)

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