Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] alias
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Wed May 06 1998 - 22:23:37 EDT
The problem is that UNIX symbolic links and MacOS aliases are very
different things. Thus, it is impossible to convert between them. UNIX
symbolic links point to the text name of some other file or directory on
the file tree. It doesn't necessarily exist and it isn't necessarily
shared. Mac aliases on the other hand, seem to be more dynamic (for
better or for worse). Under many circumstances, they seem to be able to
guess where a file is if you moved it. It is also a very more absolute
link in that it points to the name of the server.
Basically, the two types of links serve two different functions
and aren't interoperable.
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jan Dockx wrote:
> You know what I'd like? An automatic translation by netatalk from MacOS
> aliases to Unix softlinks, and vice versa (or one of both to get us
> started). Should be possible Š
>
> Sigh. (I just lost half an hour because of this ;-) )
>
> Jan.
>
> Jan Dockx - assistent (Jan.Dockx@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
> K.U.Leuven, Department of Computer Science
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> tel.: ++ 32/16/32 76 56 fax.: ++ 32/16/32 79 96
> <http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~jand/>
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> Kurt Vonnegut about the Internet
> in "Vonnegut's Timequake; All
> Things Considered, September 22,
> 1997; National Public Radio"
>
>
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