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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Putting devices in the filename space
Message-ID: <2474@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 14:52:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 14:52:57 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 06:01:02 EDT
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in article <5495@utcsri.UUCP>, flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) says:
> 
> In article <> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>>> 	1> MakeLink "." ""
>>
>>P.S.  And instead of MakeLink, how about just "ln" ... :-)!

I called it "MakeLink", in keeping with the (admittidly wordy) syntax of
AmigaDOS CLI commands, like "MakeDir".  Or maybe it should be called
"MakeLn".  UNIX calls it "ln", Apollo's Aegis OS calls it "crl".  I don't 
really care what it's called, but it's so useful, I want it.

The Apollo situation is more like what we'd have on the Amiga, since
UNIX supports both hard links and soft links, while Apollo only does soft
links.  Given the current Amiga file structure, only soft links would be
possible to add in.  The problem is that each file or directory in the
Amiga file system directly knows who it's parent is.  But logical links
should be relatively simple to drop in, in an upward compatible fashion.

> ajr
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