Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:18:15 RST
From: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru (-= ArkanoiD =-)
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To: ecke AT tea DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ls
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nuqneH,

In message <Pine DOT HPP DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 971013115749 DOT 28732A-100000 AT tea DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de> Hans Ecke writes:
> > > DOS don't know softlinks!
> > 
> > You are wrong. There is softlinks driver for DOS.
> 
> I think we are talking about standard DOS/standard OpenDOS. There are
> drivers for everything and all in the internet.

So i want ls that is aware of that driver.
> 
> > > DOS even don't know device files!
> > 
> > You are wrong again. Try using /dev/com1 from any program.. and..
> > ashur!ark [1:59 PM] /dev $ls -l com1
> > crw-------       1 0    0        0, 0x0002 Dec 31 1980 com1
> 
> That seems much like a Unix System! From where do you get FilePermissions?

I don't know. That makes me wonder: when i created /dev directory and 
device files in it one of ls ports gave me that output!

Maybe it is a library or something: i looked at source and found nothing
unusual.

> If I look in my directorytree I can`t find a directory c:\dev - maybe
> OpenDOS changes some interrupt to fake such a directory but why should it 
> do that?

Yes,it does. Seems to be done for unix compatibility ;) It fakes it even if
it does not really exist. 

> > ...DJGPP and softlinks
> > Which softlinks?
> 
> They have a rather interesting executable-format. There are so-called
> stubs with data-structures inside which include i.e. stacksize and also
> the name of the file to execute. Putting an empty string inside executes
> the executable, putting a valid filename executes this file. Now its easy
> to create a stub which points to an executable and call this a link.
> 
> Was this understandable? (I`m not native english)

Yep,but it is not fully-featured softlink support.

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