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From: ddave@pnet02.gryphon.com (David Donley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Links vs. aliases
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Date: 15 Sep 89 01:40:14 GMT
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usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>
>><>As for speed - an alias will almost always be slower than a (hard)
>><>link when they do the same thing. This is because invoking the alias
>
>Not to flame anybody in particular, but what difference does it make
>if it take .025sec or .25sec or whatever?
>
>Links or aliases would certainly be handy, but their
>use would be relatively rare, compared to non-linked files.
>
>REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   jap@frith.egr.msu.edu

Symbolic links would be nice for floppy users, they could put 10 megs on one
disk that linked to a bunch of other disks... :-)

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