Re: Hamm frozen, Slink created
> > 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.
<puzzled look> That seems odd. Wouldn't be the ftp server that deals with
following the symlinks to the correct file? Or does the ftp client read
the size out of the "dir" and only allow that many bytes?
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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