"VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" wrote:

> Checking the code, FINFO passed a mode value to FLABELINFO telling
> FLABELINFO to not follow symbolic links. The only work arounds I
> see are: to parse LISTFILE,7, to know the filename that the link
> points to and use that name, to get this fixed (it would be a
> one word patch), to call a simple program that invokes FLABELINFO
> with bit 11 set to 0 in the shortint mode parm.

user poll time....

if the finfo ci function were fixed to report that the given file was
a link -- but not try to follow the link -- would that be ok?
(obviously, trying to follow the link would be more than a 'one word
patch')                - d

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