Re: Changes to source guidelines

["James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>]

> > Please do not create hard links in the manual page directories; use
> > symbolic links instead.
> > 
> > [ I had this completely backwards; I meant the other way around.
> > Sorry. :) ]
> 
> Why???? The only real benefit of symbolic links is that they can be used 
> between files on different file systems. Will the really be any systems 
> with files in the same directory on different file systems? So-called 
> hard links can be smaller and quicker, and they *never* point off into 
> empty file space, so why not use them?

I would think that with the change it reads:

Please do not create symbolic links in the manual page directories;
use hard links instead. 


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Jim Robinson           jimr@simons-rock.edu
Simon's Rock College   jimr@cs.wisc.edu