From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11767 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Blachowicz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:53:51 -0700 Sender: scott@statsci.com Message-ID: <199707231553.IAA03911@knife.statsci.com> References: <199707180102.DAA10308@mdj.nada.kth.se> <6iv67u3b2fs.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> <86bu3vay71.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> <6ivk9ihakul.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> <199707231519.LAA02810@panix3.panix.com> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151426 32385 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA04407 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:56:01 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA29316 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:52:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5852 invoked by uid 504); 23 Jul 1997 15:54:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5849 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1997 15:54:17 -0000 Original-Received: from knife.statsci.com (206.63.206.137) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 1997 15:54:11 -0000 Original-Received: from knife.statsci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knife.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/UUCP) with ESMTP id IAA03911; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Steve Baumgarten In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:19:34 -0400." <199707231519.LAA02810@panix3.panix.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11767 Steve Baumgarten wrote: > For what it's worth, aliases in MacOS work much better than symbolic > links. For one thing, you can move the thing that's pointed to and > the alias can still be resolved. You can also rename the the thing > that's pointed to -- and still the alias is resolved. That's better? What if you want the reference to be _symbolic_ - that is, not to a particular thing, but to that thing's name? Say, I have this: make make.new gmake -> make then I do [the equivalent of] mv make make.old mv make.new make Does that mean that gmake now points to make.old? > You can create an alias of a remote server volume, copy it to a floppy > disk, take the floppy down to the hall to another Mac (on the same > network, of course), put it in, double-click it, and mount the volume > there. Cool. > The Mac is in need of many, many improvements, but aliases are cool > and really work much better than symbolic links. They appear to work _differently_ (and probably better for most situations). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org