However, a problem may arise because of Changi's file linking
emulation. On UNIX machines, which
is what most such newsreaders
are designed for, the file system provides a mechanism to let more
than one directory entry point to the same file. This is
most useful in case of crossposts, where the same article file
appears in several different newsgroup directories. To avoid
storing several copies of the same article on file systems
like HPFS, which don't support linked files, Changi uses
a simple workaround. Articles' copies do not contain the
complete contents, but a reduced set of header lines derived
from the original article, which is stored only once. An
added header X-Linked
is put in front, which points
to the location of the original article.
This somewhat incompatible behaviour can be switched off when
calling Changi with option -xl.
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