From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Programming Language Survey
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:14:45 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-05-19T22:14:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbcilqf.1mm.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vcig92ka0qff17@corp.supernews.com
David C. Hoos wrote:
> A softlink is a file pointing to a file or directory, and is
> created with ln -s.
>
> A "hard link" is created with ln (no -s), and can only be
> done on files. For example on my web site I have
> .tgz files hard linked to .tar.gz files, so that whichever
> extension the downloader prefers to use will get the
> same file.
Ah! I missunderstood completely I though he was refering to HTML and
cookies. OK, but now I really don't understand what "you have to fiddle
with softlinks or whatever" means. Doing ln -s /dev/null cookei.txt is
not hard. With Mozilla the cookies are stored in *one* file and not thousands
like with IE.
--
Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-16 19:20 Programming Language Survey Yaofei Chen
2003-05-16 19:55 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-16 20:05 ` Stephane Richard
2003-05-16 20:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-17 9:49 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-17 12:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-19 15:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-05-19 18:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-19 19:03 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-19 19:46 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-19 19:50 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-19 20:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-19 19:51 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-19 20:40 ` David C. Hoos
2003-05-19 22:14 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2003-05-20 3:59 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-20 11:57 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-19 21:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-19 22:18 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-20 2:43 ` Yaofei Chen
2003-05-20 3:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-20 4:02 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-20 11:55 ` Preben Randhol
2003-05-20 10:49 ` Samuel Tardieu
2003-05-20 0:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <f5sop-4e3.ln1@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
2003-05-20 11:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-05-16 20:44 ` Samuel Tardieu
2003-05-17 17:57 ` Yaofei Chen
2003-05-19 15:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
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