Steve Holmes staggered into view and mumbled: > >Thanks also for that description; I never really realized what that >single digit meant. I've used soft sym links quite a bit over time - >they just seemed to make more sense to me. I can't say right now the >real practical value of a harde link but I'm sure there's something. If a large number of soft links point to a single file, and that file is deleted, trying to access the deleted file via the remaining soft links will produce an error since they point to nothing. If a file is accessible via several hard links, deleting one of the hard links does not make the file inaccessible. Of course, hard links can only be made to files on the same file system--no hard links to files on other partitions--while soft links can point to files anywhere on a system. You will have to decide which is best for any given situation. I hope this extra info proves useful. Have a _great_ day! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. COSECANT (x) = COTAN (x) / TAN (x)
