[OT, unix] Looking for recursive soft linking incantation
Bob Hartwig
bob at bobjectsinc.com
Fri Feb 8 21:35:00 UTC 2002
Tim,
>It _could_ potentially be done by Squeak but the current system has no
>file linking capability. It is one of those little jobs that the basic
>OS stuff is well suited to and (current) Squeak is just barely suited
>to, so it is likely to be easier to use the OS scripting.
>
Since this doesn't need to be cross-platform, you should give some thought
to using OSProcess and/or CommandShell. See:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/708
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1914
You could do almost everything in a Squeak script, which would use
OSProcess to invoke ln (or whatever) appropriately.
-Bob
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