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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: File System suggestions
Summary: I never said it was the same...
Message-ID: <1258@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 00:16:02 GMT
References: <2086@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <387@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <454@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> 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?
> Not the same thing at all.  You can't...

It's not the same thing, but it can be used for the same purpose. Instead of
hardcoding path names in your program and using slinks to fake them out,
you hard code assignments in the program and use assignments to fake them
out. Same result, different mechanism. No reason to do both.

> > I'd be more interested in a symbolic (late binding) Assign.
> Amen.
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