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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: accelerated philosophers (was: Re: is it recreational or technical ?)
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.153220.27427@world.std.com>
Date: 28 Oct 89 15:32:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: maart@cs.vu.nl's message of 26 Oct 89 01:20:54 GMT


>A symbolic link is a POINTER to a file, | Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
> a hard link is the file system's GOTO. | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart

huh? a symbolic link is a call by name and a hard link is a call by
reference. Your analogy has conformability problems.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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