Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site hercules.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!teklds!hercules!glennw
From: glennw@hercules.UUCP (Glenn Widener)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: symbolic links (4.2)
Message-ID: <263@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 00:43:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: hercules.263
Posted: Wed Aug  8 00:43:36 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 00:39:06 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 6


   Believe it or not, I think I have found a good use for symbolic links
(a Berkeley 4.2 feature). However, the tools to support them are not very
complete.  For instance, I need to document all symbolic links with back
pointers to the link's parent directory.  Has anyone actually used
syumbolic links a lot, or developed any nifty tools for them?  Any horror
stories?  (I have heard there are bugs).