From: Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?
Date: 22 Jul 1997 10:12:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6iv67u3b2fs.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 21 Jul 1997 17:28:07 -0400
"rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
>>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
sb> Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test
sb> of time. If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it
sb> safely be ignored?
rat> Windows 95, Windows/NT, MS-DOS, Macintosh, VAX\VMS, all run
rat> versions of GNU Emacs, none support symbolic or hard links.
rat> There are probably others.
If they aren't links, what are "aliases" under MacOS then? (Not that
you can run Emacs 19 on MacOS anyway, but you brought it up.)
wondering,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-22 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-18 1:02 Mikael Djurfeldt
1997-07-18 13:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1997-07-18 14:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-07-18 15:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
[not found] ` <wkn2nk5drp.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-21 8:01 ` SL Baur
1997-07-21 14:53 ` William M. Perry
1997-07-21 16:26 ` Dan Schmidt
[not found] ` <wkn2ng8594.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-22 14:12 ` Michael Lamoureux [this message]
1997-07-22 15:44 ` William M. Perry
[not found] ` <wk7mejx7ea.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-23 14:45 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-23 15:19 ` Steve Baumgarten
1997-07-23 15:53 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-07-23 16:17 ` William M. Perry
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