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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Can you link files on a mac?
Keywords: mac link files
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.195409.18068@siia.mv.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 19:54:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.213514.1419@cbnews.att.com> <1991Jan28.213957.26221@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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In <1991Jan28.213957.26221@Neon.Stanford.EDU> rfischer@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Ray Fischer) writes:

>reo@cbnews.att.com (robert.e.o'brien) writes ...
>>Can you link files on a mac?  If so how?  Thanks in advance!

>If this means "can you link several file names to the same file like you
>do in Unix with the 'ln' command", the answer is no, not yet.  System 7.0
>will be able to do this, but current versions of the OS don't.

I think System 7.0 links are only used by Finder or Multifinder,
and are invisible to other programs.  If this is true, it is
deficient, IMHO.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]