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- Title: LINKS
- Author: Brian Brunswick
- Version: 0.56
- Title From: Documentation
- Author From: Documentation
- Version From: Documentation
- Supplier: Brian Brunswick (Brian.Brunswick@cl.cam.ac.uk)
- Date: 01/09/91
- Keywords: File managers
- Shareware: No
- Machine: Archimedes
- Operating system: RISCOS
- Memory requirements:
- Peripherals needed:
- Other s/ware needed:
- Directory: micros/arch/riscos/a/a169
- Date mounted/updated: 21/10/92
- File names: a169.arc
- Unarchived files: 5
- Unarchived size: 13 Kbytes
- Omissions:
- See also:
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- Acquiring the package:
-
- Download the uuencoded file and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help"
- file in arch/riscos/tools for further info).
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-
- Description:
-
- Links supplies semi functional soft links:
- * Can be run to run or open or see the object that they point to
- * Can be created by ctrl-dragging an object
-
- A Soft link on a disc is a pointer to an object stored elsewhere, set up
- so that it behaves exactly like the object it is referring to. This is
- much better than making a copy of the object, since it only uses up a
- minute amount of disc space, and means that the same options stored within
- the object will be accessable wherever it is run from. Unix has soft links
- that redirect all file operations and directory searches, but !Links only
- redirects Run operations.
-
- To create a soft link, say of an application deep in some directory
- structure that you nevertheless want to access from the root of your disk,
- drag the application into the root with ctrl held down. A file with a
- link icon will be created, containing the real path to the application. If
- you double click on this icon, the original object will be run or opened.
- Shift double clicking also works to open application directories.
-