Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: toolpath wanted in workbench 1.4 Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 89 07:38:20 GMT References: <19618@gryphon.COM> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com's message of 8 Sep 89 03:40:25 GMT On 8 Sep 89 03:40:25 GMT, ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley) said: ddave> If hard links are faster than aliases, you will get a package ddave> with $1000 in it. Your original statements and replies to followups are a convincing testimony that you don't understand the purposes of hard links, soft links, and the relation to aliases. (which is slim.) Aliases are a command substitution, links make multiple pathnames refer to the same file. The functions are completely different, performed at a different level, and have different, only somewhat overlapping, uses. For example, normally compress and uncompress are the same executable file, linked. But they are, as someone else mentioned, universal. Aliases are part of a user's environment. Moreover, using an alias for uncompress to point to compress would not WORK. When compress/uncompress runs, it checks it's executable name, and if it was done with an alias, the name would be "compress". If a link, "uncompress". See a difference? Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (---) --none-- Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.