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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID: <2268@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 03:21:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 03:21:35 1987
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In article <6342@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <8137@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> >It may be convenient, but it does not feel like Unix.
> 
> As with text editors, it all depends on what you've gotten
> used to.  Personally I can't stand symlinks making .. act
> like a global jump to a distant place in the hierarchy.

Indeed it does depend on your point of view.  I see symlinks as the
global jump to the distant place in the hierarchy, not "..".   This
would be readily apparent if the C shell and other shells that keep
a 'current working directory' variable weren't ignorant of symlinks.

kyle jones   <kyle@odu.edu>   old dominion university, norfolk, va