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Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:

>  "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.)

  I hope they do a better job at it than win95/nt do.  I'd have to give my
freind jer a call to double check though.  In win95/nt, the _only_ things
that understand about aliases are the GUI components.  If you try to open
one up, you basically get an 'INI' file that tells you where the real one
is - not very bloody helpful. :)

-Bill P.