[OT, unix] Looking for recursive soft linking incantation

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sat Feb 9 01:24:12 UTC 2002


"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> is claimed by the authorities to have written:


> However, the Smalltalk idea is interesting.  How about modify the code
> that did the copying from VMMaker, and have it run "ln -s" using
> OSProcess instead of caling the file copier?
> 
> (Alternatively, you know, you can just hack the FileCopyPlugin to make
> links instead of making copies.  :) )
Oh, Duh. Of course. Thank you.

It's just as well I can keep half my brain on the net; the internal half
doesn't seem to work too well sometimes.

tim
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