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On 8 Sep 89 03:40:25 GMT, ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) said:

ddave> If hard links are faster than aliases, you will get a package
ddave> with $1000 in it.

Your original statements and replies to followups are a convincing
testimony that you don't understand the purposes of hard links, soft
links, and the relation to aliases.  (which is slim.)  Aliases are a
command substitution, links make multiple pathnames refer to the same
file.  The functions are completely different, performed at a
different level, and have different, only somewhat overlapping, uses.
For example, normally compress and uncompress are the same executable
file, linked.  But they are, as someone else mentioned, universal.
Aliases are part of a user's environment.  Moreover, using an alias
for uncompress to point to compress would not WORK.  When
compress/uncompress runs, it checks it's executable name, and if it
was done with an alias, the name would be "compress".  If a link,
"uncompress".  See a difference?

Deven
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