Carlos E. R. wrote:
What is the advantage of having that symlink, then? There surely must
be something.
Symbolics link can link directories and cross filesystems. Hard links
are more efficient, but are limited to files in a single file system.
Anyway, discussion of Unix is OT.
But instructive for Linux, too. As it happens, I first installed Linux
at home because I wanted to practice a bit for the Unix I had at the
job (and Linux, too). That was a decade ago...
The changes have been interesting. I remember when Bill Joy, who was at
BSD in those days, released vi as shareware. It sure a lot better than
ex. I also remember when he released csh, which I never really liked. If
you ever saw a Lier Siegler ADM-3A terminal, you would know why the
cursor keys in vi are j,k,h, and l. In the time it took me to download
the vi source from Berkeley, I could have driven from Cupertino to
Berkeley, loaded it on tape, and been back in Cupertino. If you don't
know Bill Joy, he is the mentor for Java and currently works for Sun.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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