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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <6528@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 13:07:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.6528
Posted: Mon Jun 29 13:07:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jun-87 06:16:00 EDT
References: <2629@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <5962@brl-smoke.ARPA> <5985@brl-smoke.ARPA> <679@nu3b2.UUCP> <189@wrs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <189@wrs.UUCP> geoff@wrs.UUCP (Geoff Espin) writes:
|In article <679@nu3b2.UUCP> you write:
|>
|>I have been reading these articles since I joined USENET [some 1.5 weeks
|>ago]  I feel that I am fairly well informed but...
|>
|>What is a "symbolic" link?
|>Is is different from a regular link?
|>am I crazy? :-)
|>Did I miss something important in my education? 8-)
|>
|>Someone please respond or mail me an explination.
|>			Thanks.
|>
|>Robert.
|
|Sorry to FLAME you but...
|
|1) You posted to comp.unix.wizards which is supposedly for "advanced"
|   questions [1].  You should at least have had the sense that your
|   question was of a basic nature, i.e. maybe fit for comp.unix.questions.
|   You are "fairly well informed" about what? AIDS? Aren't we all by now?
Nice bit of gratuitous insult. If he doesn't know what it is, how can he
know if it's advanced or not? This is where the discussion is, he
assumed that this was where he should ask.
|
|2) The "man" command can be useful.  It's actually faster than sending
|   junk queries over the net -- though the output is rather predictable. :-(
|   Presuming that you're not on some relic UNIX system without symbolic
|   links, try:  man ln
It may come as a vast suprize to you, but there are more people using
SysV than BSD. There are also more copies of Xenix in use than any other
implementation, and that doesn't even *include* the man pages!

Of course the comment about relic operating systems is "real technical".
You must be one of the people who tie up the net every few months with
"my o/s is better than your o/s".
|
|3) Your spelling is atrocious, especially the following mapped files
|   discussion.  Please run your letters through "spell",
|   or better still "| head -0" :-)
Being such a hot shot, why don't you pipe your incoming mail through
spell? You could use style and dict too, if you like. Why all the flames
about a simple question?
|
|---
|[1] Here's to calling the kettle black, but I couldn't mail to nu3b2?
|
|Geoff

I can't use you address, either.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me