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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Subject: Re: Hierarchies on diff filesystems
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In article <GOEHRING.91Apr23161328@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring) writes:
|> unless cnews will use symlinks when
|> a hard link is not possible (dunno on this, i ain't no expert)

  C News will, indeed, use a symbolic link when a hard link is not possible. 
However, I do not believe B News will do the same.

  Followups on this particular discussion to news.software.b.

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