Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: WANTED: ""/filename == ./filename Message-ID: <18354@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 08:42:34 GMT References: <2701@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <1991Jan30.192631.15514@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 15 In article <1991Jan30.192631.15514@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes: >Of course, under 2.x you can use MakeLink . "" and MakeLink .. / >to get your . and .. to work. Just don't do "dir all". :-( Many system utilities are only marginally knowlegable about links at this point, though that will change. Be careful with links to directories, particularily self-referential ones. (Unix makes this only usable from super-user mode.) -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)