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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
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Date: 5 Jul 89 19:25:30 GMT
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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.

	Absolutely true.  But how many programs are like that?

	compress-uncompress
	backup-restore

	maybe one or two others....  not very many.  These are one time
	things too.  So if you take it in perspective about 90% of
	my soft links would be directories.  On the amiga there would
	be more reason to soft link files (say, fonts and commercial
	libraries so I can keep stuff bundled with the rest of its
	associated software).

					-Matt