SYMLINK(OC)

Shore Programmer's Manual - 3 November 94

NAME

symlink \- create symbolic link

SYNOPSIS

#include <ShoreApp.h>
shrc Shore::symlink(const char *contents, const char *linkname);

DESCRIPTION

Symlink creates a symbolic link object named by linkname containing character string given by contents. Typically, contents is a pathname, but in practice, it can be any string. If it is, in fact, a pathname, it need not be on the same file system (the same Shore volume) as linkname.

VERSION

This manual page applies to Version 0.1 of theShore software.

SPONSORSHIP

The Shore project is sponsored by the Advanced Research Project Agency, ARPA order number 018 (formerly 8230), monitored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory under contract DAAB07-91-C-Q518.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1994 Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin -- Madison. All Rights Reserved.

SEE ALSO

readlink(oc) .