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From: N8TM AT aol DOT com
Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
21 Aug 1998 15:12:25 -0700 :
Message-ID: <b11ea382.35dd15e7.cygnus.gnu-win32@aol.com>
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To: sarnold AT earthling DOT net
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In a message dated 8/20/98 4:39:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org writes:

> How about just documenting the behavior of the mount command?

and the similarities and differences of symlink (ln -s)
I get the impression that one can't count on it working after the contains of
a symlinked file are changed.  Maybe that's why mount is recommended, but
mount is too permanent, while ln -s is too impermanent.
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