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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Matt D. / MAC FST
Message-ID: <2467@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 15:34:56 GMT
Organization: Gallifrey
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In article <38482@apple.Apple.COM>, farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>
>In article <2463@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
>>A symbolic link is a directory entry that either:
>>	a) contains the path name of the target file
>>or	b) points to a file with one data block, which, in turn, contains
>>		the pathname of the target file
>>
>>Method b could easily be implemented on ProDOS and GS/OS.  Method a would
>>require larger entries in directories (or better yet, variable length entries -
>>could also allow longer file names to be used).  For ProDOS and GS/OS, method b
>>is propably the best way to implement symbolic links.
>>
>>(To the GS/OS and ProDOS development teems: How about doing this? (symbolic
>>links))
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>
>Option B would require an FST to implement this, and is not as easy as you
>might think.
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>| Cary Farrier                          | Internet  : farrier@apple.com   |

Yes, I know that either a new FST or a new ProDOS FST would be required for
either method of softlinks.

Is the documentation for writing FSTs available?