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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Various small comments about Emacs
Message-ID: <89Jun8.112219edt.11724@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 89 15:22:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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In article <TALE.89Jun8105435@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes:
>I've been meaning to look at this one and see how the link could be
>preserved.  The fellow who handles the /export partitions on our
>primary fileservers has exactly the same problem with the ring of
>files he has ln'ed.  He wants to edit just one of the files (any file)

(setq backup-by-copying t) in your .emacs will solve that.

Using hard links to share /export (I assume you are talking about SunOS4.x)
is a dangerous proposition for that very reason.  If emacs and vi can be
made to do the "right" thing, g*d knows what all the other utilities will
do with hard links.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4