[Info-vax] INDEXF.SYS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jg13dj$far$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> And thus, also, it is true that INDEXF doesn't know the directory the 
> file is in. It does, in atleast this case, only know where it was 
> created. I don't know if renaming the file to be in another directory 
> will update the backlink. Could anyone check?
> 

   Yes, renaming the file to another directory does update the backlink.
   But set file/enter does not, it preserves the original backlink.

   Someone want to look into the newer UNIX-compatable file aliases to
   see what they do with the backlink?  I've never needed to use them.

   The biggest difference that I know of is that when you use set
   file/enter, the existence of the file depends only on whether the
   original directory entry has been deleted.  For UNIX compatability 
   the existance of the file needs to depend on whether all links have 
   been deleted.