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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 16 May 1997 20:42:47 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 21 Sender: joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu Distribution: inet Message-ID: <sejaflv9beg.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3379A05E.21EB@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> <337A149B.15C52A4F@uci.edu> <337B120F.379E@ford.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45225 comp.os.linux.misc:176204 comp.os.linux.x:62067 alt.os.linux:21417 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3345 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41285 gnu.misc.discuss:31393 comp.unix.solaris:106985 Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com> writes: > That's because Multics supported the concept of "adnames," which > allowed a file to have multiple names associated with it. [snip] > Adname support is something I miss. Soft links in unix have > subtle differences that drive you crazy if you try to use them > for this purpose. What's the difference between adnames and hard links? Cheers, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped