Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: /bin/e, /bin/ed, /bin/red Message-ID: <1083@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 3 Jan 90 00:44:25 GMT References: Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Distribution: comp Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 18 In article saus@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Mark Sausville) writes: >/bin/e, /bin/ed and /bin/red are all the same. I know that they're not very big. >-rwxr-xr-x 3 root 36864 May 2 1989 /bin/e >-rwxr-xr-x 3 root 36864 May 2 1989 /bin/ed >-rwxr-xr-x 3 root 36864 May 2 1989 /bin/red >But, they are on the root (small) file system. This seems bad. They're all links to the same file, of course. No more space (other than the extra directory entries) than a single file. One of these days you'll smile when you recall asking this question. Until then, don't sweat it. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu