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- From: mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
- Subject: Re: MakeLink
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175547.13571@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <alien.02sl@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:55:47 GMT
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- In article <alien.02sl@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >Does anybody know what MAKELINK is supposed to do?
- >
- >The AmigaDOS manual sez this:
- >
- Deleted
- >
- >That seemed clear enough to me, but it doesn't seem to work that way. I tried
- >creating a file "Alpha", then a link to it called "Bravo", like this:
- >
- > makelink bravo alpha
- >
- >When I do a dir, both files appear, and when I type them, Bravo now has the
- >same text as Alpha. Looks OK so far.
- >
- >*But*, when I use an editor to change the text in Alpha, Bravo remains
- >unchanged! As far as I can see, the "MakeLink" command isn't doing what it's
- Are you sure you don't mean that when you change Bravo, Alpha remains the same?
- This command makes a hard link to the file. Both files seem to contain the same
- info but take up only one files worth of diskspace. If you edit the link however (or
- write it in any way) it becomes a file in it's own right for safety reasons.
-
- >
- >What's going on?
- >
- >--
- >...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- >"I blame you for the moonlit sky and the dream that died with the Eagle's flight
- >I blame you for the moonlit nights when I wonder why are the seas still dry
- >Don't blame me, sleeping satellite" (Tasmin Archer)
- >--
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