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From: mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu)
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Subject: Re: 2.0 extended
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Date: 2 Apr 91 07:00:47 GMT
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I guess most Unix users won't have a problem adding an external drive to a 
105 MB NeXTStation, so this post might not be helpful for the majority of
you. However, since I was asked to summarize, I figured at least someone would
benefit from the information.

Use ln -s physicaldirectory symbolicdirectory to create a symbolic link across
file systems. For instance, if you want Shakespeare to work with Digitial
Librarian, and have the Literature folder on your external, create a link with
the command ln -s /externaldrive/Literature /NextLibrary/Literature. Make sure
you include the full pathname. The reason symlinks didn't work for me the first
time was that I neglected to type out the entire path since I was in the
parent directory of the directories I wanted linked.

On another note, thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier question about
available Pascal compilers. There'll apparently be a Pascal compiler coming
from UVA sometime in the future for a relatively inexpensive price (I haven't
received details yet). p2c seems to be the most popular solution, though.

Matt
mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu