From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8429314ce5e9d92a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-19 15:14:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Programming Language Survey Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1b2f70c3.0305161120.6ca17b7e@posting.google.com> <2tNCm7hWr4Xn@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1053382485 402 129.241.83.78 (19 May 2003 22:14:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:14:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37538 Date: 2003-05-19T22:14:45+00:00 List-Id: 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/