Re: Re: Re: Linux versus GNU/Linux...

[Raj Mathur <raju@xxxxxxx>]

Oooh, this is too hot!  And it doesn't even look like symlinks, looks
more like regular links to me (the sort that chkdsk used to complain
about).

I yield... Suresh and Khader, please feel free to take your flamewar
offline as long as we keep getting nuggets like this regularly!

-- Raju

>>>>> "Udhay" == Udhay Shankar N <udhay@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Udhay> Here is one such. Have fun...This time they are claiming to
    Udhay> have "invented" symlinks, at least 30 years after it showed
    Udhay> up in Multics (UNIX symlinks are modeled after these)


    >> This is from
    >> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
    >> 
    >> Microsoft Research Innovations Enhance Windows 2000
    >> 
    >> REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky
    >> and two Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology
    >> advances when an idea occurred to them -- why not save
    >> operating system disk space by storing duplicate files as links
    >> that point to a single file housed in a central location?