[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Jan 21 16:32:11 EST 2016


On 2016-01-21 20:13, hb wrote:
> On 01/21/2016 07:14 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> As I found out the hard way, be careful with delete/tree if you are
>> working on system with GNV and other UNIX programs and there are
>> hardlinks set on the non-system volume which link back to system
>> directories.
>
> Hardlinks, going from the non-system volume to system directories on
> which volume? Or softlinks?
>
> On the other hand, hardlinks (and softlinks) are independent of "GNV and
> other UNIX programs". They are ODS-5 features. Any VMS user can use them.

Well, hardlinks exists even in ODS-1...

	Johnny

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