Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4 Summary: This doesn't belong in comp.sys.amiga.tech Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 10:43:51 GMT References: <19512@gryphon.COM> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com's message of 5 Sep 89 21:00:21 GMT On 5 Sep 89 21:00:21 GMT, ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) said: ddave> I think hard links stink too- they are just a slow crummy way ddave> of doing alias... Excuse me? Hard links have other uses than to multiname executables. "alias" is shell-specific anyhow, and using a hard link is guaranteed to be faster. Hard links have their uses, but won't easily fit into AmigaDOS as it is. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.