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Re: msdos-i386 directory...
> Symlinks to directories will have to remain symlinks, however there are
> a lot fewer directories, and you can at least deal with those using the
> TRANS.TBL file.
Having slept on this, I appear to have come up with a solution that would
serve both DOS users, and Linux users who want an unadulterated (i.e. with
symlinks) mirror on their CD.
1) for all directory symlinks, decide which of the alternative names is most
useful for the real directory. (i.e. in the case of `bo' the answer is
probably `stable')
2) for all file symlinks create a hard link to the real file called
.hardlink.symlink_name
3) when creating the iso file system, perform the following mappings:
all symlinks -----> __LINK__.???
directories -----> favourite alternative name
.hardlink.filename -----> filename
This is starting to become meaningless, so how about some concrete examples,
so here is the proposed TRANS.TBL from a CDROM's root:
D STABLE bo
D BOOT boot
F COLOPHON.TXT;1 colophon.txt
D CONTRIB contrib
L __LINK__.000;1 development unstable
D DOC doc
D UNSTABLE hamm
D INDICES indices
D LOCAL local
F LS-LR.GZ;1 ls-lR.gz
D NON-FREE non-free
D NON-US non-us
D PROJECT project
F README.;1 README
F README.MIRRO;1 README.mirrors
F README.NON-U;1 README.non-US
F README.PGP;1 .hardlink.README.pgp
L __LINK__.002;1 README.pgp README.non-US
F SOURCE.TXT;1 SOURCE.txt
L __LINK__.003;1 stable bo
F TIMESTAM.TXT;1 timestamp.txt
D TOOLS tools
L __LINK__.003;1 unstable hamm/hamm
D UPGRADES upgrades
Things to note above:
D STABLE bo
L __LINK__.003;1 stable bo
F README.PGP;1 .hardlink.README.pgp
so the DOS dir listing would look something like this:
Directory of E:\ Original Unix Name:
===================
STABLE <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a bo
BOOT <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
COLOPHON.TXT 500 3-30-97 10:10a
CONTRIB <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
__LINK__.000 0 3-30-97 10:10a development
DOC <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
UNSTABLE <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a hamm
INDICES <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
LOCAL <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
LS-LR.GZ 228507 3-30-97 10:10a
NON-FREE <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
NON-US <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
PROJECT <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
README 1303 3-30-97 10:10a
README.MIR 8857 3-30-97 10:10a
README.NON 1529 3-30-97 10:10a
README.PGP 1529 3-30-97 10:10a .hardlink.README.pgp
__LINK__.001 0 3-30-97 10:10a README.pgp
SOURCE.TXT 894 3-30-97 10:10a
__LINK__.002 0 3-30-97 10:10a stable
TIMESTAM.TXT 29 3-30-97 10:10a
TOOLS <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
TRANS.TBL 1134 3-30-97 10:10a
__LINK__.003 0 3-30-97 10:10a unstable
UPGRADES <DIR> 3-30-97 10:10a
It would be nice to make the __LINK__ files hidden.
The only fly in the ointment is the ``unstable --> hamm/hamm'' link, which
under dos gives the effect of a ``unstable --> hamm'' link.
Is anyone still reading this drivel ?
Cheers, Phil.
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