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From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Putting devices in the filename space
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 13:56:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 13:56:41 1987
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Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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In article <> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>> 	1> MakeLink "." ""
>
>P.S.  And instead of MakeLink, how about just "ln" ... :-)!

One reason is because Manx f---ed up and used "ln" rather than "ld" for
their link command.  But I agree that "MakeLink" is a little wordy.

I think that the original unix "ln" / "ld" command names was insufficiently
thought out.

ajr