Symbolic link - Revision history

Larsbrinkhoff: Unlink this ITS, there is another.

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Unlink this ITS, there is another.

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2023-09-06T05:31:21Z

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2018-12-16T00:18:00Z

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Larsbrinkhoff: /* History */ Information from CBF's Amber thesis.

2018-11-16T07:29:08Z

‎History: Information from CBF's Amber thesis.

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2018-10-21T13:40:35Z

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2018-05-25T11:42:37Z

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Jnc: Jnc moved page Symbolic links to Symbolic link without leaving a redirect: SIngular

2018-05-25T01:39:17Z

Jnc moved page Symbolic links to Symbolic link without leaving a redirect: SIngular

Larsbrinkhoff: Wikisyntaxify.

2018-05-24T15:11:01Z

Wikisyntaxify.

Larsbrinkhoff: Stub about symbolic links

2018-05-24T15:10:36Z

Stub about symbolic links

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- ITS Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links. 1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
- The Multics paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
- CTSS supposedly had links.

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 * The [[Multics]] paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
 * [[CTSS]] supposedly had links.
-* [http://www.mit.edu/~cbf/thesis.htm Charles Frankston wrote in 1984]: "Until recently symbolic file system links seemed to be an MIT secret, being found only in [[Multics]] and two homegrown MIT systems: [[ITS]] for the [[PDP-10]] and [[MagicSix]] for [[Interdata_8/32|Interdata/Perkin-Elmer 32 bit machines]]. However, symbolic links have been added to [[4.2 BSD|release 4.2 of Berkeley Unix]]."
+* [http://www.mit.edu/~cbf/thesis.htm Charles Frankston wrote in 1984]: "Until recently symbolic file system links seemed to be an MIT secret, being found only in [[Multics]] and two homegrown MIT systems: ITS for the [[PDP-10]] and [[MagicSix]] for [[Interdata_8/32|Interdata/Perkin-Elmer 32 bit machines]]. However, symbolic links have been added to [[4.2 BSD|release 4.2 of Berkeley Unix]]."
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-* [[ITS]] Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links.  1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
+* [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links.  1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
 * The [[Multics]] paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
 * [[CTSS]] supposedly had links.

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 * The [[Multics]] paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
 * [[CTSS]] supposedly had links.
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-A '''symbolic link''' is a connection between one [[file]] name in a [[file system]] and another (the 'target'; which does not necessarily need to exist at the time the symbolic link is created), such that references to the first name wind up at the second.
+A '''symbolic link''' is a connection between one [[file]] ''name'' in a [[file system]] and another (the 'target'; which does not necessarily need to exist at the time the symbolic link is created), such that references to the first name wind up at the second.
 They differ from [[hard link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the symbolic link will go to the new file.
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-- ITS Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links.  1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
+* ITS Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links.  1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
-- The Multics paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
+* The Multics paper "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage" from 1965 describes symbolic links.
-- CTSS supposedly had links.
+* CTSS supposedly had links.
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