[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[bill]

On 7/13/2023 1:50 AM, gah4 wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 3:46:45 PM UTC-7, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> [...] For example, gzip, gunzip, zcat, and gzcat, are all the
>>> same file, but do different things based on argv[0].
>> Common in the past, but the GNU folks decided against that scheme
>> some time ago. (At least a dozen years?)
> 
> Looking on computers near me.
> 
> A MacBook Air with OS 10.12.6 has two different files, not linked,
> but with exactly the same contents.
> 
> ls -li compress uncompress
> 421074 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  27680 Jul 14  2017 compress
> 421907 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  27680 Jul 14  2017 uncompress
> and cmp -l shows that they are the same.
> 
> FreeBSD does use the hard links, and also Linux.
> The Linux system is 13 years old, so doesn't disagree with your dozen years.

Which is yet another example of "throw more hardware at the problem".
A link would save the space, but who cares.

bill