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Subject: Re: PD wish book
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 14:46:00 EDT
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A lot of that sounds good, but there is a problem with things like:
FOLDXXX.PRG.  That is, you would have to have a copy of the program for
each permutation of the program name you wish to keep around.  In the case
of FOLDXXX, this is no issue, but in the case of the disk formatter you
mentioned, it might eat into your free disk space some.  What the TOS
filesystem needs for this is the U*ix notion of a "link".  (Everyone knows
about links, right? :-)) This is how "cp", "ln" and "mv" all work.