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From: ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grow your own VI (Re: AVI editor)
Message-ID: <1888@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 20 Aug 88 16:33:39 GMT
References: <2424@sugar.uu.net> <5660007@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <5660007@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>
>For these reasons I sorely miss file links, which are missing from
>AmigaDo*.  I want to be able to do exactly the same thing on my Amiga.
>--
>	Charles Brown

I ran accross the same need in porting a c cross reference database system
to the Amiga.  It had a single program called "lid" which was linked to two
other names: "gid" and "eid".  I added "-g (for gid)" and "-e (for eid)"
options and created a couple of CSH scripts named "eid.sh" and "gid.sh"
which invoke lid with the proper option and pass on the rest of the command
line arguments.  Not quite as nice as a link but a heck of a lot less space
than three copies of the same binary.  With CSH 2.07 it will search your
path for files ending in ".sh" and execute them the same as commands.  And,
since CSH executes such scripts as "source" commands (ie: doesn't have to
load a new copy of itself) the time it takes is negligable.


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