Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!rutgers!psuvax1!burdvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!stb!michael From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: File System suggestions Message-ID: <10002@stb.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 87 01:55:59 GMT References: <2086@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <387@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1236@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, USA, 90402 Lines: 23 In article <1236@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >> [symbolic links so you can move files around behind a program's back] > >Isn't that what Assign is for? > >I'd be more interested in a symbolic (late binding) Assign. I'd like to be >able to do things like "assign include: Aztec:include" in my startup sequence >without it asking me to insert Aztec: then & there. Right now assignments >are handled by throwing around locks on directories. These are not the same. A late (or not) binding Assign is NOT the same as symbolic links. Symbolic links are dependend on where in the file system you are. Assigns (Which, I agree should be symbolic, not locks) are global. Assigns take a LOCK on the file--try doing things with a locked file. But yes, I'd rather see symbolic links than no links. Hard links are messy on AmyDos; so, maybe we don't get them. -- : Michael Gersten ihnp4!hermix!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael : sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!stb!michael : "Copy Protection? Just say 'Off site backup'. "