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- From: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: link vs ln on the 3b1: what gives?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:53:00 GMT
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- In article 18394@colorado.edu, wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk writes:
- > ln -s does not work.
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- The -s is to create soft links. Soft links are a BSD addition, and do not
- exist on the 3b1, (or any other SYS5 Unix, unless they were added by the vendor).
-
- > ln a b just creates two copies of the same file with different names.
-
- ln does not create a second copy of the file. It gives the single file a second
- name. If after doing 'ln a b', you change the contents of b, you will see that
- a has also changes.
-
- > is this a bug or a feature?:-)
-
- That is the way the SYS5 version of ln has always worked, so I guess that
- it's a feature.
-
- > this is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. how do we create soft
- > links on the 3b1?
-
- The only way to get soft links is to get a different machine, as they do not
- exist on the 3b1.
-
- Tom Tkacik
- GM Research Labs
- tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com
- tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org
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