mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu) (03/31/91)
I finally managed to copy the 2.0 extended stuff onto my external harddrive ... the only problem is, I can't use a good deal of it. In particular, I can't get OxfordQuotations or Shakespeare to work. The problem is I have all the stuff on an external disk, and the files aren't where the applications are used to. So I created a bunch of symbolic links in the proper places. Which seemed to be a good solution at the time, but it doesn't work. And when I tried to cd to a link, it told me that there were too many levels of symbolic links and left me where I was. Does anyone know how to get around this? Thanks. Matt mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu
mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu) (04/02/91)
I guess most Unix users won't have a problem adding an external drive to a 105 MB NeXTStation, so this post might not be helpful for the majority of you. However, since I was asked to summarize, I figured at least someone would benefit from the information. Use ln -s physicaldirectory symbolicdirectory to create a symbolic link across file systems. For instance, if you want Shakespeare to work with Digitial Librarian, and have the Literature folder on your external, create a link with the command ln -s /externaldrive/Literature /NextLibrary/Literature. Make sure you include the full pathname. The reason symlinks didn't work for me the first time was that I neglected to type out the entire path since I was in the parent directory of the directories I wanted linked. On another note, thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier question about available Pascal compilers. There'll apparently be a Pascal compiler coming from UVA sometime in the future for a relatively inexpensive price (I haven't received details yet). p2c seems to be the most popular solution, though. Matt mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu