Multics adnames and hard links (was Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?)

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:00

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David Kastrup wrote:
>Then use hard links. "a file having multiple names associated with it"
>is hard links, quite clearly.

R!ch  <richardt@uk.sun.com> wrote:
>... Assuming that they're on the same filesystem.

As I remember, Multics adnames had to be in the same *directory* as the
file for which they were additional names, so that wouldn't be an issue
if somebody wants something like adnames.  (I forget whether Multics had
multiple file systems in any sense like the UNIX sense.)

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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Subject: Multics adnames and hard links (was Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?)
Date: 1997/05/24
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