Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:10:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <20020808210908.O85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hi, Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what. > Hard links can lead to confusion. I suppose that's not a problem > For most of you though. But, for example, if a person doesn't know > which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is > really less. They might think less is really more (if they discovered > it at all). And really, symlinks are not so unbearably wasteful > unless you are running some very intensive applications. > ////jerry Which came first, the less or the more? ;-) Why would intensive apps matter? Is it a RAM issue, or like Windows shortcuts? Just curious. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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