Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   That's what soft links are for. I don't know, however, if any commonly
> > used CD file system supports soft links.

> Or hard links, for that matter.

  True. The difference is, of course, that with soft links you have the
original file, and an independent "link" pointing to it somewhere else.
The original file has a definite location, and you can easily see that
the soft link is just a link pointing there.

  A hard link is, effectively, like if the file was in two places at the
same time (although its contents are stored in the disk only once). There
is no "original" file, as both file entries point to the same data. They
are both as "original" as the other. (In most unix file systems a program
like 'ls' will actually show the amount of hard links pointing to the same
file when you list the file; ie. like a reference count. It doesn't show
*where* those other links are, but you can see how many of them there are.)

  In this particular case the latter situation might even be better, in fact.

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                                                          - Warp

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