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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: link vs ln on the 3b1: what gives?
- References: <1993Jan21.222115.18394@colorado.edu>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 16:21:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.162133.24733@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <1993Jan21.222115.18394@colorado.edu>,
- posted to comp.sys.3b1,
- wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) wrote:
- >i am running 3.51m as os. i recently tried to do an 'ln' operatiion.
- >
- >i found mysterious things happening.
- >
- >the users manual does not contain a page for ln. it does contain a
- >page for link.
-
- The man page for ln is the same page as for cp.
-
- >link is not found, ln is.
-
- link is a system call, and can be found in the shared library
- and in libc.a.
-
- >ln -s does not work.
-
- ln does not have a "-s" option.
-
- >ln a b just creates two copies of the same file with different names.
-
- No, it creates a link. Unless you try to link across file
- systems, in which case it makes a copy.
-
- >this is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. how do we create soft
- >links on the 3b1?
-
- Do you mean spaghetti filesystems? You don't.
-
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