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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic links to cross-posted articles
Message-ID: <1910@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 18:41:57 GMT
References: <185@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <23012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <23012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Netnews uses UNIX "hard" links to link the multiple instantiations
>of a news article into the multiple newsgroup directories. Netnews
>is most certainly NOT making N copies of an article for appearance
>in N newsgroups, except on VMS systems, under Eunice (but then,
>they deserve to lose).

Nope.  I did the Eunice code for 2.11 news, and it makes the
equivalent of symbolic links.  The article is stored under the
first newsgroup, and the remaining newsgroups have a tiny file
containing nothing but the name of the first file (I stole this
from Larry Wall's Eunice code in "rn").
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