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).