[SunRescue] symlinks

Cyrus M. Reed reedc at cc.wwu.edu
Fri Mar 3 13:13:00 CST 2000


Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated:
"Top-Secret.doc merged with Top-Secret.doc"
:)

-Cyrus

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, David Rouse wrote:

> 
> > Chech this out, Microsoft just "invented" symlinks out of the blue.  
> How
> > long have these been available in *nix?
> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
> > 
> 
> Without saying what I think about the idea, I think what MS has done is 
> have the OS create the links on the fly, by itself, without telling 
> anyone. In other words, it looks for duplicate files and merges them (as 
> far as disk space is concerned). I *hope* (for the sake of any W2K 
> users) that the OS can reliably un-merge files as well.
> 
> --  
> David Rouse
> Network Manager
> Goldsboro News-Argus
> 
> 
> 
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