| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Has anybody come across a program like MakeLink (WB2.0) which will
provide the Unix-like ability to make a soft link across directories or
volumes?
I would like the ability to setup search lists, so that I could split a
set of files across several volumes and be able to access all of the
files as though they were in one directory (like with SID or
DirMaster). I could do this with Path but then the system would search
all of the entries in the Path which I do not want to have happen, I
would much rather be able to refer to a logical like PICS: and access
only those directories which have a soft link to an entry in a root
directory.
thanks
wayne
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| 5146.1 | CSEXP1::ANDREWS | I'm the NRA | Fri Oct 25 1991 17:10 | 6 | |
I think there used to be something called PathAssign. It would allow
you to put a string of paths in an assign type statement.
Probably on EOT:: or a FISH disk somewhere.
Rob
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| 5146.2 | can't find it in Fish. | CGOWGS::OAKLEY | BCNU2 | Fri Oct 25 1991 19:57 | 9 |
Sounds like something that might work.
I searched the Fish list and could not find any indication of this
program.
Would anybody happen to have a pointer to this program?
wayne
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| 5146.3 | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Garth, take your Ritalin... | Tue Oct 29 1991 02:38 | 2 | |
-< CRISTA""::AMIGA:PATHASS.LZH >-
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| 5146.4 | pathassign does the job | CGOWGS::OAKLEY | BCNU2 | Wed Oct 30 1991 18:14 | 15 |
Thanks,
PathAssign creates a new device entry and allows one to access more
than one directory/device through the new device name. Access to a
specified file is quick, wildcard operations (eg: dir test:*) are
rather slow and if you copy to the device the file goes into the bit
bucket. If a file with the same name appears in more than one place it
will show up that number of times in a directory listing, operations on
that filename will take effect upon the first one found in the
pathassign list.
For the most part this is a good substitute for a soft link
ability.
wayne
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| 5146.5 | seem to work great! | VSSCAD::GATULIS | Frank Gatulis 226-6140 | Wed Oct 30 1991 19:02 | 5 |
Does PathAssign work with 2.0 also?
Frank
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