hi ya dan
no problem with tar
no problem with hard links...
i just dont use um...if it dont work for me...i remove um
and use relative symlinks
c ya
alvin
On 15 May 2001, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a is
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that
> case since its in the same directory/partitions
> - hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories
> and partitions since it keeps the leading /
Hardlinks can't cross partiti
hi ya dan
congrats you found more differences in ln ... :-)
- very interesting differences in ln
( see the next test below ... done same way as yours...
- .pine having been local to the dir makes
a difference when my .prinrc023592 file was elsewhere
- y
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems )
If you have standard Debian software installed, like gzip, then
you use hardlinks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ls -l /bin/*zip*
-rwxr-xr-x4 root root46160 Dec 2 1999 /bin/gunzip*
-rwxr-xr-x
hi ya dan
i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems )
have fun
alvin
-- note that x.h is dereferenced back to /home/alvin/...
which i think is bad but... thats a good reason NOT to
use hardlinks ( ... just me ... )
-- x.s is what i want... create it relative and keep it relat
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic,
> how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem
...
> relative links is the preferred methodology ( hard or soft )
> and avoids the leading / and allows the portability of
> the files t
hi ya dan
i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic,
how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem
# ln -s /home/foo/something.txt /home/bar
- never use explicit directories
vs
# cd /home/bar ; ln -s ../foo/something.txt .
- always use relative direct
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