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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>
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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.
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