From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 17:42:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292AD37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA1043E6A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3CD5C816C0; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:12:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:12:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Matthew Seaman , Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop?) Message-ID: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 7 August 2002 at 20:27:11 -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Ah, but on FreeBSD, less is more, more or less: >> happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -lai /usr/bin/{more,less} >> 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/less* >> 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/more* > > GNU. "Gnu's Not Unix." :) Ask a silly answer, guess a silly question. > > Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space They don't. You've overseen the first and third columns of that list. > instead of just having a symlink ;-) Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message