Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Links
Message-ID: <8909180737.AA29741@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Sep 89 07:37:16 GMT
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 16

:
:	Not only is the speed difference insignificant, but adding ANY kind of
:links would require changes to the operating sys. Links also have the problem
:of making the disk directory structure more confusing, and you can accidently
:squash files you didn't intend to. Say you have a link like "ln rm delete".
:Then you get a great rm port from unix and copy it to c: Now you just
:squashed your old version of delete. At least with aliases both files would
:exist, and you would just have to take out the alias from your startup-file...
:
:		Links: just say no

	Oh *Please*, lets not argue about simple semantics.  The obvious
    solution is to have ln refuse to overwrite a file, which makes ln
    harmless, eh?

					-Matt