Re: SymLink - what is it?

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <23p5ba$gjm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Kent Squires  writes...
> 
> Well, I downloaded SymLink off cco today and went to check it out - the
> damn docs are in French! What the hell _is_ this program? There's a CDA
> and a CDev for it - and there's an Init folder but I didn't check out
> what was in it. Anybody have any docs in English for it?

    I'll translate it when I get the time.  SymLink gives GS/OS symbolic
links (or aliases).  The alias icons look exactly the same as the
originals and file utilities will report the aliases as having the
file/auxtype and size of the original.  Of course, they really only take
up a few dozen bytes on disk.  I'm not sure what happens when something
like ProSel-16 checks the disk for errors, but so far, it seems to work
very well.  You make aliases through the CDev and the CDA turns SymLink
on and off.

    It has some problems with GNO though.  I've had directory listings
show up with the same filename repeated for however many files there
really are in the folder.  Filename completion and wildcard expansion
doesn't work either.  It looks like source code is included, so maybe
someone can update it to work with GNO.
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