From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 21: 2:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CA137C060 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA31379; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:00:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:00:50 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Mark Ovens Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? In-Reply-To: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:07:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Just saw this on a NetBSD list. It looks like a good idea. We should > > make sure that they don't implement it before we do. > > > > :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? HISTORY An ln command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. The simplified link com- mand conforms to Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification. So ln(1) is coming up on its thirtieth birthday. I don't remember when symlinks came into the picture. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message