On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:07:49AM +1000, Ben Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 06:46, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:04:39PM +1000, Ben Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > I have thought of adapting libferris to support a new symlink format,
> > > using regular files and pretending at its API level that it is a link. I
> > > was still trying to avoid that for now as it opens up a few other
> > > issues.
> >
> > UGH, apples OSX does this and its gross, `symlinks' you create in the
> > GUI are useless regular files in the shell.
>
> It wouldn't be quite as painful in ferris because ferris being a library
> I add more and more support for it to bash as time goes by.
> so a cd my-strange-link; would work.
not everyone uses bash. there is absolutly no acceptable reason to
reinvent("symlink")
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Ethan Benson
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