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From: cds@lrt20.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <359@root44.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 07:42:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 07:42:26 1987
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Reply-To: cds@lrt20.UUCP (Chris Seabrook)
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One big proble with making .. back up symbolic links is it would lose what
I consider to be one of the biggest uses of symbolic links. I have a directory
full of symbolic links pointing at various useful places around a quite
complex tree, these symbolic links are named as mnemonics for the various
places they point at and the directory containing them is included in my
CDPATH. I then can say "cd <mnemonic for somewhere close>/../<where I really
want to be>" without having to type in lengthy pathnames.

	Chris Seabrook

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