On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:26:38PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> While I'm pretty sure that both [Windows and Machintosh] have
> some kind of "symlinks" on the GUI level,
Correct.
> I'm not sure whether the compilers can be persuaded to
> dereferense those links.
Almost certainly not on Windows. On the Mac, probably. A MacOS
alias is a weird beast, somewhere between symlink and hard link
in behaviour, depending on circumstances (the algorithm for
resolving one is pretty scary!) But it's implemented at a lower
level than the GUI, if I recall, which is the salient detail
here.
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