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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
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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.