Thanks alisonken1, I did indeed mean that when you have production code and test code then its time to bring in the version control systems. But having said that ;-) i have been naughty in the past and used the -s or --symbolic-link option of the gnu cp (sometimes available as gcp), command which copies a whole directory tree of the production release to a test area, copying directories but putting links in to the original files. I make sure that the production code is all read-only thenwork in the test area. If I need to modify a file I: * list the link * remove the link, replacing it with a copy of the file linked to * get write priviliges to the new copy * edit the copy.
But we should all be using a version control system right :-) - paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
