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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: specifying links in protos for mkfs
Message-ID: <663@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Feb 88 22:16:31 GMT
References: <1152@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1152@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>Is there a way to specify links for proto file systems in mkfs?  

No.  mkfs can't handle links.  I don't believe the V7 mkfs can either.
For programs like dosread, doswrite, and dosdir, that are in fact links, the
best thing is to mount the new file system and have a shell script do the
links.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)