From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: Use the native Symlinks. 24 Aug 1998 14:20:54 GMT Message-ID: <6rrss6$dla$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <35E04A22.6971.cygnus.gnu-win32@telegenisys.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <35E04A22.6971.cygnus.gnu-win32@telegenisys.com>, Henry J. Cobb wrote: >Why add the concepts of hard and soft links to an operating system that >already has soft links? (And that's all you need really, if you drop >the flawed concept that the "operating environment" can hide the true >line end markers.) > >What symbolic links on eNp-Ty? They're called shortcuts here. > >Simply tune the DLL to parse whatever.lnk files and treat them the same >as Posixstan symbolic links and change the LN.EXE program to create >shortcuts. > >The result is a "filesystem tree" that's browsable from both the GNU >and eNp-Ty sides. Check out the mailing list archive. You're not the first person to bring this up. -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada