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Article #357Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
From: Daniel S. Riley
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 18:07
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 18:07
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In article <8907012203.AA21545@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > One thing I would like to mention at this point. In the many > years I've used links I've used them almost solely to soft link > directories to each other. I soft link files about as much as I > hard link files, which is never. Hey Matt, what about your backup and restore program? Same executable, changes behavior depending on the name--that seems like a prime candidate for a soft link to a file. -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) -Wilson Lab, Cornell U.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!riley From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request) Message-ID: <8326@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 5 Jul 89 18:07:08 GMT References: <8907012203.AA21545@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 12