[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

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On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 15:46 -0700, Steven Schweda wrote:
>    Common in the past, but the GNU folks decided against that scheme
> some time ago.  (At least a dozen years?)  For example:
> 
> proa$ pwd
> /usr/local/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.12
> 
> proa$ ls -li gzip gunzip zcat
> 133419312 -r-xr-xr-x  1 sms  wheel    2346 Jul 12 17:21 gunzip
> 133419311 -rwxr-xr-x  1 sms  wheel  140108 Jul 12 17:21 gzip
> 133419314 -r-xr-xr-x  1 sms  wheel    1984 Jul 12 17:21 zcat

my system still uses:

ls -li `which gzip` `which gunzip` `which zcat`
11537290 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 27  2022 /bin/gunzip -> gunzip-
reference
11537275 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 27  2022 /bin/gzip -> gzip-
reference
11537294 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 27  2022 /bin/zcat -> zcat-
reference

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