Darren New wrote:
>
> Exactly. Code the indirection into your program instead of littering the
> file system with it. In other words, store the name of the file in two
> places, rather than making it look like there's two files. Bump the
> indirection up a level - indirect to find the file name, instead of
> indirecting to find the data.

And if two humans instead of two programs should read the data? :)

> Or use a "shortcut", which gets automatically updated when you move the
> "real" file somewhere else, even if it's someone moving a file on a
> network share.

Shortcut doesn't count, since it's always named .lnk ie. the file name
can't be same.

-Aero

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