This software is COPYRIGHT, but has been released as FREEWARE. Please see
the end of this file for conditions of use and distribution.
About the Software
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!LinkFS provides facilities for symbolic links under RISC OS 3. It provides an image filing system (like DOSFS) so that when a link is used, the image filing system redirects calls made it to the appropriate 'real' filing system.
Using the Software
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Double clicking on the application loads it onto the iconbar. Any directories or applications dragged to the icon will cause a save box to pop up containing an icon for the link. If this is dragged to a filer window, the link has been made, and may now be used.
The link may be used just as if it were a directory or application, with all the normal operations being possible. Deleteing the link will *NOT* delete anything 'inside' it, only the link itself.
Note that, in order to use links without loading the application, the module contained in the application directory must be loaded, perhaps as part of a boot sequence.
Planned Future Extensions
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Nothing very much!!
Bugs, Misfeatures and Idoiosyncracies
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Please note that this application needs RISC OS 3 or later to run. This is
simply because image filing systems don't exist on RISC OS 2!
Thanks and Credits
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Thanks to everyone who's given me tips, advice, help etc, also to all the
Acorn owners I've met in the last two and a half years, and especially those
I've met since getting my Arc last year. Also to everybody whose programs
I've looked at for ideas on coding for the Wimp.
A special thank you to my beta testers, and in particular to Martin Ebourne, Andrew Hersee and Ian Palmer, for finding bugs.
Also thanks to Ian Palmer for his excellent BLibII application which really is extremely useful.
Thanks to Dickon Hood for his debug library that let me find the bug
that had been annoying me for about four years.
Thanks again everyone - And may the Acorn world flourish evermore!
Copyright Notice - Read and OBEY!!
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This application is copyright Tom Hughes. It is *not* Public Domain, but it
*is* Freeware. This means that you may use it yourself, and may distribute
it to others provided that you pass it on *as is*, with all the files with
which it came. You may not distribute it any way which leads to you or
anyone else making profit from it. This means that you can only charge
enough to cover the costs of media and postage involved in distribution, and
you may not use it as an incentive to buy something else. If in doubt,
contact the author at the address below.
The author's permission *must* be obtained before this application is
included on any Magazine disc, and it would be appreciated if PD libraries
could inform the author when they are distributing this application.
Bug reports, donations, complaints, thanks, free software etc to the author