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From: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Symbolic links on SCO ODT
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.094840.7267@grep.co.uk>
Date: 14 Feb 91 09:48:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.172618.9659@objy.com>
Reply-To: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
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In article <1991Feb11.172618.9659@objy.com> bruce@opus.objy.com (Bruce Reed) writes:
>Does anyone know if SCO ODT supports symbolic links in V1.1? I know they
>didn't in V1.0 (probably the worst omission in ODT and the only <UNIX> NFS
>distribution I've seen without them.)

On ODT 1.0, you cannot create sym-links, but if the filesystem you've
NFS mounted has sym-links, then ODT will follow them (but it won't
report them in an `ls -l' listing). This means that the kernel
``supports'' sym-links, but the user utilities don't (ie `ln -s'
doesn't work).

		vic
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