One way to detect aliased files

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From: Jeffrey Del Papa
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 03:32

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    Date: 6 APR 87 17:15-PDT
    From: JWHITNEY%UWARITA.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu

    Regarding SET FILE/ENTER and SET FILE/REMOVE...

    The best way I have found to detect aliases is to do a DIRECTORY/FILE_ID.
    Two entries with the same file id are duplicate-link files.  As for detecting
    which is the original, I am unsure.

    Jay Whitney


If you look in the index file entry, you will find the original name.

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