From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 18:12:23 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 D402437B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C0743E75 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04D428F80; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:12:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:12:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: Jerry McAllister , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Matthew Seaman , Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: In-Reply-To: <20020808141523.GT281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: <20020808211101.G85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less. > They're two names for the same file. > > So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time, > more is less. This thread leaves one craving simplicity -- anyway, a question. So can you delete one and not have both disappear? I think it would be very quirky and perhaps rude of FreeBSD if a user did an `rm more` and less went with it! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message