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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS:
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Hi, Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what.
> Hard links can lead to confusion.   I suppose that's not a problem
> For most of you though.   But, for example, if a person doesn't know
> which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is
> really less.  They might think less is really more (if they discovered
> it at all).   And really, symlinks are not so unbearably wasteful
> unless you are running some very intensive applications.
> ////jerry

Which came first, the less or the more?  ;-)  Why would intensive apps
matter?  Is it a RAM issue, or like Windows shortcuts?  Just curious.

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