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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Diff between sym and hard links?
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:20:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.232020.2459@Celestial.COM>
- References: <mcampbel.726585766@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
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- In <mcampbel.726585766@eola.cs.ucf.edu> mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell ) writes:
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- :Anyone? What *is* the difference between symbolic and hard links in a
- :unix fs?
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- Without going into the internal details:
- - Symbolic links don't have to be on the same file system.
- - Symbilic links can refer to directories.
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- Bill
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