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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: 14 Sep 89 03:40:18 GMT
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shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>
>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
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As I said before, I KNOW what aliases and soft links and hard links are.  If
you don't think I'm telling the truth, perhaps you arn't reading my messages. 
Further comments on this subject should be directed to private mail at
ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com.