[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[gah4]

On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 6:34:40 AM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:
> I am just about to install V9.2-1 and intrigued about hard links. 

(snip)

> I have used soft links on *nix for many years, but only for linking to a 
> directory, which you cannot do with hard links 

Symbolic links are often used for files on modern Unix-like systems.
The cases that I know that are still hard links are programs that have
different names.  For example, gzip, gunzip, zcat, and gzcat, are all the
same file, but do different things based on argv[0].

Reminds me, though, on early VMS, maybe 1.x, you could rename a 
directory into itself.

ren  x.dir [-.x]x.dir

(I think that is how I did it.)

In which case the directory is gone, but the space still counts for your quota.
That was in 1979, so maybe v 1.5 or 1.6.