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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Symbolic links to cross-posted articles
Summary: Hard links under VMS.
Message-ID: <3379@killer.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 21:04:57 GMT
References: <185@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <23012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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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).
>
>	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

There was an interesting mis-feature in VMS prior to version 3.0 which
allowed (and may still allow) creating something like hard links by
judicious use of COPY/OVERLAY and a few other simple commands to create
a fake directory (which was then copied onto the real directory).

Has this been fixed?  Has anyone found anything useful to do with it?
Did you even know this bug existed?

- John.
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