On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:06 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > I have read the man page but am still confused. What is the > difference between hard and software links. I have tested both and it > doesn't make sense to me. Hard links don't seem to be links at all.
I assume you're doing this on a filesystem that supports hard links (most Linux filesystems, and NTFS, for example). Here's a decent description of hard links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link With one addition. Whereas *nix symbolic (soft) links can point to files on another filesystem, hard links can only point to files on the same filesystem. (Some people incorrectly consider partition and filesystem synonymous but LVM is an example of why they are not.) Mac OS aliases (classic at least) are basically a combination of hard and soft links. (Yet another example of useful filesystem features Mac OS invented more than a decade ago that it's a shame no other mainstream OS has.) Windows shortcuts are basically symbolic links. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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