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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!netapp.com!netapp.com!not-for-mail From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Multics adnames and hard links (was Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?) Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Date: 24 May 1997 17:17:24 -0700 Organization: Network Appliance Lines: 13 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5m80ek$q25@tooting.netapp.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337B120F.379E@ford.com> <m267wkvlxo.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <Pine.SOL.3.93.970515165723.5063d-100000@infernal> NNTP-Posting-Host: tooting.netapp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45398 comp.os.linux.misc:176827 comp.os.linux.x:62423 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3405 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41563 gnu.misc.discuss:31476 comp.unix.solaris:107509 alt.folklore.computers:133992 (Redirected to "alt.folklore.computers".) David Kastrup wrote: >Then use hard links. "a file having multiple names associated with it" >is hard links, quite clearly. R!ch <richardt@uk.sun.com> wrote: >... Assuming that they're on the same filesystem. As I remember, Multics adnames had to be in the same *directory* as the file for which they were additional names, so that wouldn't be an issue if somebody wants something like adnames. (I forget whether Multics had multiple file systems in any sense like the UNIX sense.)