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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:40:59 +0100
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In article <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr>,
fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) writes:
: By the way, the symetrical link command allowed a (super)user to
: create links to anything, including cyclic graphs in the file system
: tree that fsck could not remove, and so on. Does it also exist on *BSD
: ?
This sounds like the "ln -f" option on Sequent Dynix boxes. It allows
you to hard-link directory entries ;)
I lost the company I worked for many hours when I discovered that option !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.