On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, der Mouse wrote:

>> And if the program is expected to take different actions depending on
>> which name has been used to start it (like gzip/gunzip), symlinks
>> won't work, I believe.

> I think they will; they certainly did in a test I just ran, on
> NetBSD/sparc 1.4T, NetBSD/i386 2.0, and NetBSD/i386 3.0 (I don't have a
> mac68k machine up at the moment or I'd try it there).  I would not
> expect different results on any other NetBSD; as far as I know they've
> worked this way since symlinks first existed.

Wow, you're absolutely right.  I had no idea.

It really made sense that they would behave differently in this case, I 
guess it's time to read up on the philosophy of things.


MAgnus