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From: ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4
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Date: 8 Sep 89 03:40:25 GMT
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shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>
>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
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>Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

If hard links are faster than aliases, you will get a package with $1000 in
it.
 
C.O.D.
:-)