On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:36:12PM -0500, James Howard wrote:

 > > Renaming?
 > > [15:25:53] mortis:~
 > > (ttyp9):{838}% ll -i `which crypt` `which enigma`
 > > 23155 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/crypt*
 > > 23155 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  4980 Oct 29 13:47 /usr/bin/enigma*
 > 
 > Why is that a hard link instead of a symbolic link?

Hard links are faster, require no disk space, and don't consume any
extra inodes.

   - mark

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