Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:25:38 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ? Message-ID: <20031019092538.GA95269@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0310190842520.19835@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0310190842520.19835@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? All of the programs you list are actually hardlinks to one another. If you run "ls -li" on them, you will see that they have the same inode number, and are consequently the same file. > nvi -> nview > nvi -> vi > nvi -> view You can add ex and nex to this list too. David.
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