On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:16:26AM -0800, Larry Price wrote:
> > 
> > which suggests to me that /usr/bin/aaaa is for looking up ipv6 addresses
> > but why the duplication? why not a link?
> > 
> 
> Does aaaa work the same when called by a different name?
>
no

$ ln /usr/bin/aaaa chunk
$ ./chunk efn.org
efn.org                 A       206.163.176.5
 
so when called as something other than aaaa it acts as host normally
would. Ah, I see, hard links are not explicitly listed as such by 
ls -l

oops. 
/me turns pinkish with embarassment

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