On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:04:30AM -0000, Ivor Williams wrote: > If the other person wanted always the latest version of my file, s/he > should use a symbolic link instead. That's what symbolic links are for!
No, a symbolic link is for when you can't use a hard link - ie it's a directory, or on a different filesystem. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david " In fact, Mr Cantrell, you are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. " -- arp, after the "Bernie Shifman is a fucking idiot" page