ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) (10/21/89)
In article <1989Oct20.124940.2899@wash08.uucp> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes: >In article <8222@cbmvax.UUCP> ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes: >>(soft links exist on berkeley derived or sufficiently mutated SYSV >>systems). You can tell if a file is a soft link by doing an 'ls -l', >>as: >>$ ls -l /tmp/Aen.c >>lrwxr-xr-x 1 ag 5 Oct 19 08:04 /tmp/Aen.c -> /z/unix/ag/aen.c >Just so you know, Keith, my "sufficiently mutated SYSV system" has >symbolic links (your 'soft links') (NCR Tower 32/650 SVR2), but the >output of 'ls -l' does not show this. SYSVr4's 'ls -l' output is like Berkeley's. I bring this up because a co-worker an I were discussing the merits of SYSVr4's ls(1) (by default) following links on 'ls foo' but not on 'ls -l foo'. Actually it centered mostly around 'ls -l foo' not following links. Which seems sort of none-intuitive... but as you said, some people like it. I'd like to hear peoples feelings on this. Pax, Keith Ps, I vaguely remeber this being hashed out somewhere around a year ago; reply directly to me and I will summarize. -- "It took no computation to dance to the rock 'n roll station" -- VU ag@cbmvax.commodore.com Keith M. Gabryelski ...!uunet!cbmvax!ag