[Coco] Dumb way to write 3.5" floppy in Coco RSBASIC?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 13:25, Dave Kelly wrote:
>> >"ln -s src target"
>> >
>> >> command in os9, well, ahh, mmm...  If I get my system back up
>> >> and running again, thats one of the utils I intend to write.
>> >
>> >I must have missed something. How would you use this as opposed
>> > to what is already in place under OS9?
>>
>> And whats in place under os9 to do that?  Anytime I've wanted to
>> multiple link a file, I've had to do it by hand with ded.
>>
>> AFAIK, the 'link' program we have, is just a memory link count
>> incrementer, used to prevent an unused processes link count to
>> ever go to 0, at which point it will be unlinked and the memory
>> recovered. Use it to lock your bootup loaded utils pack into
>> memory forever.
>>
>> What I'm refering to is the ability to have a file show up in
>> several directory listings.  Any one of which can be edited and
>> the results then show up at all locations because every reference
>> in the directories actually points at the same file descriptor
>> LSN.  Os9 does support such operations very well.  We've just
>> never had the utility to make it simple to use.
>
>I did miss something, you are refering to a data file or script file
> or something other than in the executable commands direcetory.  A
> symbolic link would be neat, I withdraw my question.
>
>> CRAFT? :-)
>
>Big Time  :-(

Chuckle.  Guilty.  And thats exactly what got me to this point :(

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