Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!maujf
From: maujf@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs kills hard links!
Message-ID: <400@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jan 88 22:56:10 GMT
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Reply-To: maujf@opal.warwick.ac.uk (Mike Taylor)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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Summary: Help!

Hello world!

This is my first posting to this group, since I've been using ded all my
life, but since I changed to emacs, I have been stunned to find that when
overwriting a linked file, emacs destroys the links, leaving me with only
one version of the file changed.  OK, so I could always re-link them
afterwards, in fact that's exactly what I *do* do, but it's messy, and
frankly I can do without it.  

I guess those of you who have been using Emacs since the dawn of time will
have heard all this many times before, but could anyone tell me a neat and
simple way around this?  Maybe something I can put in my .emacs file so
that it maintains links with edited files?

Thanks very much.  And have a nice day!