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 "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