From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11748 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dfan@harmonixmusic.com (Dan Schmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function? Date: 21 Jul 1997 12:26:11 -0400 Organization: Harmonix Musick Systems Message-ID: References: <199707180102.DAA10308@mdj.nada.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151410 32251 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA15092 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:39:16 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02606 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:35:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from maud.ifi.uio.no (0@maud.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.19]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:26:44 +0200 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by maud.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:26:43 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 29916 invoked by uid 504); 21 Jul 1997 16:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29913 invoked from network); 21 Jul 1997 16:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ntserver.harmonixmusic.com) (146.115.90.65) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 1997 16:26:19 -0000 Original-Received: from turangalila.harmonixmusic.com ([146.115.90.78]) by ntserver.harmonixmusic.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-29126U35) with SMTP id AAA477; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:23:02 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of "21 Jul 1997 01:01:38 -0700" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11748 SL Baur writes: | Stainless Steel Rat writes: | | >>>>>> "MD" == Mikael Djurfeldt writes: | | MD> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic | MD> links instead of hard links? | | > Important reason why not: not all filesystems support symbolic links. | | Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test of | time. If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it safely | be ignored? I have to use Windows 95 at work, which doesn't have symbolic links. I realize that Win95 is a work of Pure Evil (I run Linux at home), but I do manage to run Emacs and gnus on it. I'd prefer not to be ignored, safely or not :) -- Dan Schmidt -> dfan@harmonixmusic.com, dfan@alum.mit.edu Honest Bob & the http://www2.thecia.net/users/dfan/ Factory-to-Dealer Incentives -> http://www2.thecia.net/users/dfan/hbob/ Gamelan Galak Tika -> http://web.mit.edu/galak-tika/www/