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From: jkingdon@oberlin.UUCP (Jim Kingdon)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Symbolic links to cross-posted articles
Summary: VMS has hard links in a fairly straightforward manner
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Date: 20 Feb 88 16:39:40 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
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I don't know about tricks with fooling it about fake directories and
stuff.  VMS has command SET FILE/ENTER, which creates a hard link,
and SET FILE/REMOVE which removes one.  The big difference with UNIX
is that if you SET FILE/REMOVE the last reference to a file, instead
of deleting the file, those disk blocks just sit there until you
reformat the disk.  I'm pretty sure that there are RMS calls to do
this stuff from a program too, but I've never used this stuff much.