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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Hard links vs. Soft links
Message-ID: <13655@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:24:48 GMT
References: <1084.26d2a42b@desire.wright.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1084.26d2a42b@desire.wright.edu> anagram@desire.wright.edu ((For Mongo)) writes:
>When I had a system error and all the links were destroyes, I
>deleted them all, except ls, and re-linked them using soft links.

Thereby using up more disk space and slowing down execution.