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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)
From:       Christoph Claus <chr-debuser () lux ! dnsalias ! net>
Date:       2002-09-30 20:00:24
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:13:32PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:

> Ordinarily, no.  Generally it's not symlinks that affect the behavior of
> a program.

Programs actually *can* be written to honor the name with which they
are called, e.g. joe does.

lux:~> file /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/jmacs 
/usr/bin/joe:   ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically \
                linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/usr/bin/jmacs: symbolic link to joe

Try running those two -- their shortcuts are quite different...

Christoph


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