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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 18:52:40 JST nixCraft 🐧

   yes #Unix #Linux #BSD #macOS

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     Mark Delany (markd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 18:52:47 JST Mark Delany

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     @nixCraft Don't forget that #Unix was just an early iteration of "everything is a file".

     #Linux tinkered at the edges with things like /dev/proc and /dev/fd, but Plan 9 is really where it's at if you want an OS which fully embraces the concept.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 18:52:48 JST clacke

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     @industrialartifact @nixCraft Yes, it's a text file that just has the symbolic link attribute.
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     Nobody (industrialartifact@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 18:52:50 JST Nobody

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     @nixCraft is a symbolic link a file?

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     Nobody (industrialartifact@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 21:15:33 JST Nobody

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     • clacke

     @clacke @nixCraft
     #unix #retrocomputing
     https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26602/origin-of-unix-symbolic-links

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