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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
 "Re: symlink chain." (Jan  3,  9:14am)
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On Jan 3,  9:14am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} Whence is a wrench.  Wrenches should not be hard to understand and they 
} shouldn't have any gotchas.

Whence is a pocketknife that you seem to want to be a Leatherman tool.

If you want the wrench analogy, wrenches fit on nuts, and nuts of a
particular shape.  The shape of nut that whence fits on is a single
word that might be a key in one of the command-related hash tables.
A full file path is not that kind of nut.  YOU are making whence hard
to understand by trying to feed it things it wasn't designed to accept.