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- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Interesting Alias
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:11:48 GMT
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- References: <2Gyfi7j020n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz> <18336@acorn.co.uk>
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- In article <18336@acorn.co.uk> aoliver@acorn.co.uk (Ashley Oliver) writes:
- :Ah, sorry to disappoint. That's just the command line version of Brian
- :Brunswicks excellent !Links that provides Run-nable symbolic links.
- :A completely general solution to the problem of links
- :still remains to be developed for RISC OS.
- :
- :(But when somebody does, I'll bite their hand off).
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- Why not encourage Acorn to finish off the RISC OS interface to the
- Unix file system? Then you can have all the features you want... *and*
- a very smooth upgrade path to Unix sales later. (Unlike what I just
- did - copy off to DOS very slowly indeed, reformat, and copy back)
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- G
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