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Subject: Thoughts on Variant Symlinks; was Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept
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Another veteran of Domain/OS here.  Isn't it time to change the subject
of this thread?  Variant symlinks are quite distinct from what the OP
was proposing (one "link" concatenates a plurality of files).  -- George