On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:59:13PM -0400, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>
> > 1. AFFS handles links horribly. It has pseudo-inodes for all
> > links and they point to the real one. Unfortunately, that [...]
>
> This is an old story... That's why nobody used links on AFFS. AFAI remember
> AmigaDos has not a command to make links :)) I had to DL it from somewhere
> in the net...
> So, link support is not so important. If we can read/write files and dirs
> on an AFFS disk reliably, IMHO it's enough for 99.999% of people.
Except for the MakeLink command which came as a standard part of AmigaDOS
s of 2.0x or thereabouts and which I used alot in order to do some fun
things with the startup scripts. Very useful it was and it does need
support.
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