On 20 Aug 1998, Georges Heinesch wrote:

: When making a Symlink to a file, BFFS shows the Link as Directory.
: Does this have a particular reason?

Symlinks (`Soft links' under AmigaOS) show up as directories because of the
way Examine() works, and the way the links are stored on disk.

Smarter programs should know how to handle these as soft links, and the
files should work correctly even if they look rather odd.

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