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To: Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] How to copy some files
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:10:40PM +0100, Ronan Waide wrote:
> Sure, but soft links would do the same. To be honest, I'm trying to
> think of a useful use of hard links right now, and I'm a little
> stumped. There's gotta be some benefit that I'm missing that's
> immediately obvious to everyone.

mh used them nicely.  mh stores one message per file.  the refile command
allows you to move a message from one folder to another *or* link it to
another folder.  it uses hard links to do this.  this would suck to if
it used soft links - what if i later deleted the actual file?

kevin

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