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Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS:
To: grog@FreeBSD.org (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
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> > A user error less likely to happen with a symlink since they show
> > up so obviously in an ls -l.
> 
> Symlinks have their place.  But hard links are the building stuff of
> file systems.  Symlinks are a relatively new addition to the file
> system: ten years ago, a number of commercial UNIXes, and also Linux,
> didn't have them.
> 
> The problem with symlinks is that they confuse people.  You still seem
> to think there's something different between /usr/bin/more and
> /usr/bin/less.  

There isn't now because someone put the same file out there with
two names.   

Well, this has gone far enough anyway.   

////jerry

>  So people put these forests of symlinks in directories
> where they just confuse things.

> 
> Greg
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