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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:16:54 +0100
From:      "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
To:        "Guido van Rooij" <guido@gvr.org>, "John" <jwd@bsdwins.com>
Cc:        "Hackers List" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: magic symbolic links (ideas/patches?)
Message-ID:  <001e01c2e9bf$0849b9f0$471b3dd4@digiware.nl>
References:  <20030313003952.GA1800@BSDWins.Com> <20030313105557.GA84120@gvr.gvr.org>

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