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From: kashtan@sri-iu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Eunice links
Message-ID: <8@sri-iu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 13:00:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 13:00:06 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 07:47:47 EDT
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At the moment, at least, UNIX-style links are just not possible under VMS.
You can make a link to a file, but there is no reference count kept by
VMS -- so deleting any link to a file (or the original file itself) will
cause all the other links to dangle.  One solution I am considering is
to use 4.2BSD style symbolic links whenever a regular link is requested.
Objections????
David
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David Kashtan, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
ARPA: Kashtan@SRI-IU or Kashtan@SRI-AI
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