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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: bad bug in v37 Ram-Handler
- Message-ID: <37601@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 7 Dec 92 00:47:29 GMT
- References: <paulk.2kio@terapin.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- >Why are soft links still not supported by the MakeLink command? Could
- >it be because they still crash sometimes?
-
- That's one reason. Others include the fact that they screw up
- C: commands and MatchFirst/MatchNext, and they design has a problem that
- needs to be fixed with relative paths, and they've never had any serious
- testing. I think that's enough reason to list them as not supported.
-
- >They seem to work just fine with the V37 ROM filesystem ... but in RAM:
- >they are buggy.
-
- >Is this fixed in V39?
-
- Yes - they're ifdefed out.
-
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- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.