Alpha images on ftp site (was Re: (fwd) [Test-Runner Results]Squeak3.6beta latest update: #5411)

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Sep 12 03:55:23 UTC 2003


On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 09:01 PM, Julian Fitzell wrote:

> Doug Way wrote:
> [...]
>> Dumb question since I've been away from Unix too long... is it 
>> possible to have a symlink to a file? (which is reasonably clear when 
>> using an ftp client?)  Then we could have:
>> Smalltalk/Squeak/current_stable -> Squeak3.5/Squeak3.5-5180.zip
>> Smalltalk/Squeak/current_development -> 
>> Squeak3.7alpha/Squeak3.7a-5420.zip
>
> Yes, but when you download the file with an ftp client it will be 
> called 'current_stable', so it will be confusing on your hard drive.

Yeah, that's not so good.  Ian sent me an email saying more or less the 
same thing.  So the directory symlink is probably the clearest way to 
handle things.

- Doug



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