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From: eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew happily using ksh)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: i-nodes and Cnews (really pre-SVR4 and C News)
Summary: symlinks for SCO SysVr3.2
Keywords: symlinks, SCO, SysV, UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.194625.26859@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 21 Apr 91 19:46:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.203030.7210@world.std.com> <1991Apr9.164220.13618@cs.utk.edu> <1991Apr9.211906.20833@world.std.com>
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In article <1991Apr9.211906.20833@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>	[....]
>If C News can't make the necessary (hard) links, it will make symbolic
>links instead, on systems that have them (e.g. SVR4, 4BSD, Eunice).  So
>on a system that has small i-numbers (typically two bytes) but does have
>symbolic links (e.g. V8), one can just mount other file system(s) in
>appropriate places (e.g. under /usr/spool/news, or elsewhere with
>symbolic links from under /usr/spool/news).
>	[....]
>-- 
>Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff

....and now for the good news for those of us running SCO SysVr3.2.x
....I have it on reliable authority (he'd strangle me if I mentioned
his name) that SCO has implimented symlinks (and some other goodies)
for their next release of SysVr3.2 .  The bad news is that I don't
think there's a release date yet.  I just know that my patience will
finally be rewarded.  It's nice to get something you explicitly
asked for.  :-)
--
  Ed. A. Hew  <edhew@xenitec.on.ca>,  XeniTec Consulting Services
  or if you're really stuck:  ..!{watmath|lsuc}!xenitec!eah
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