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- From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Why touch can't follow symbolic links?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.153618.7999@fnbc.com>
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- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <1992Aug12.021707.29856@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:36:18 GMT
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- > In article <1992Aug12.021707.29856@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
- jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
- >
- > Suppose I build symbolic link using command 'ln',
- > say, 'ln -s /usr/local /home/yuan/local' ( in host ccnext)
- > Then when I touch from ccnext2 to ccnext,
- > switch to /home/yuan/local (in Touch), what touch shows
- > is just a text file icon with question mark in it.
- > Obviously, it doesn't follow the link.
- > Is it?
- >
- >
- Don't use Touch. It's buggy and can crash your machine hard. Supposedly
- someone (Marble?) is re-writing it and will release it sometime in the
- future. As for now, check out GatorFTP+ from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It
- does a similar job, more robustly. (by using the ftp protocol, which will
- follow symbolic links, by the way).
-
- This should be a FAQ, too, I think.
-
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- David Lemson (312) 732-4741
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