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Old 05-21-2002, 06:01 PM   #1
petey
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Symbolic Link FAQ's?

Coming from an non-UNIX background, I'm not exactly clear on exactly what a symbolic link is.

- How is a symlink different from a Classic Mac OS Alias?

- Is it just plain text of the absolute path of the file?

- What's the difference between Absolute and Relative symlinks? How about Hard Links?

- While I know it's easy enough to create a symlink in the CLI, anyone aware of any GUI apps that create/deal with them? (I do know that LaunchBar has some link creation abilities.)
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