Ok, you've got me curious. On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:06:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > [...] a utility i read about > in a 3-year-old posting called "symlinks" that uses a .symlinks file > in each directory that will contain symlinks.
This seems to be the original reference to it: http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.html#SEC01 Reading between the lines, I infer that the "symlinks" program was developed as an internal utility for the GNU web site. Perhaps it was never formally released to the public. That seems a bit surprising, for the FSF of all people, but it's not actually contrary to the GPL :-) Maybe the program was never deemed to be of release quality. Clues: - The wording, "a simple mechanism has been implemented on the machine hosting the www.gnu.org", suggests a quick-and-dirty local utility - The file's location is given as: gnudist.gnu.org:/usr/local/src/symlinks-1.1.tar.gz which is an rcp-style pathname, not a URL - The directory part of that location is /usr/local/src, not a directory one usually finds in anon-ftp areas -- and certainly not one I recall ever seeing on ftp.gnu.org (which has the same IP address as gnudist, btw) Try asking the GNU webmasters, or other individuals who've discussed the thing in the past. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs