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Re: Hamm frozen, Slink created




On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I wonder, have you ever considered using hardlinks? It seems to me that
> > would eliminate a lot of problems people have mirroring things (if mirror
> > programs handle them correctly), and simplify your work too. 
> > 
> Hard links would specially help with the msdos directory, as several
> dos/windows ftp clients don't follow symlinks and the user ends up with a
> bunch of zero length files.
> 
> What's the penalty Guy?

It would increase by 100% the mirrors size I guess.
Moreover, it fixes the symptoms, but not the problem...
I'd rather vote for putting a working DOS FTP client in the tools/
directory...

	Cordialement,

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