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 13:40:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Programming Language Survey Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:40:00 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <1b2f70c3.0305161120.6ca17b7e@posting.google.com> <2tNCm7hWr4Xn@eisner.encompasserve.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37534 Date: 2003-05-19T15:40:00-05:00 List-Id: 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. "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnbcidec.7sv.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > Wesley Groleau wrote: > > Sending cookies to /dev/null means in those few cases > > where you will tolerate the cookie long enough to > > work the site, you have to fiddle with softlinks or whatever. > > What are softlinks? > > -- > Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada >