From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 06:06:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA26287 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 06:06:54 -0800 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA26267 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 06:05:02 -0800 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.enet (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA23547; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:59:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:59:27 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey Message-Id: <199503161459.PAA23547@vector.enet> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Brian Tao Re. ----- Isn't this sort of duality the same issue found with symbolic links? Sometimes you want what the link points to, and sometimes you want the link itself? ----- Yup, I was looking for something like that in `test' to use in my sys/Makefile stuff, but man test offers no such facility. Julian S