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From: ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley)
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Subject: Re: yet another 1.4 request
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Date: 2 Jul 89 16:20:18 GMT
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FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>Ok, Peter.  I've studied up and asked questions and I think I have
>a pretty good idea of what a hard link and a soft link is.  But
>what am I gonna *do* with a soft link once they become available?
>
>Anybody out there want to suggest a half-dozen or so uses for a
>soft link?  And maybe a few for a hard link?  I can think of some
>trivial uses but what do you really need 'em for?
>
>Dana  
>
>(thankx)

Suppose you had five disks of fonts...  You could link them all together, and
it would look like only one big disk to programs that can't support multiple
font directories (Lik ProWrite), and the system would ask you to swap disks
for it.  (Soft Links)  What's an example for hard links?

Opps, gotta change my .signature...  The BBS is not up anymore...

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