[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 7/14/2023 3:44 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 14/07/2023 17:58, gah4 wrote:
>> On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 5:55:14 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 7/13/2023 9:25 AM, bill wrote:
>>
>> (snip)
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>> We can discuss the optimal choice between:
>>> * paying more dollars to get bigger disk
>>> * the complexity of programs with multiple behavior depending on name
>>
>> But it is still multiple behaviors depending on the name,
>> and still wasting (not very much) disk space.
>>
>> And then there is busybox, which puts all of the usual Unix-like program
>> in one file:
>>
>> [, [[, acpid, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash,
>>          awk, basename, beep, blkid, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat,
>>          catv, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpasswd, chpst, chroot,
>>          chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab,
>>          cryptpw, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, depmod,
>>          devmem, df, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dnsdomainname,
>>          dos2unix, dpkg, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject,
>>          env, envdir, envuidgid, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fbset,
>>          fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, findfs, flash_lock,
>>          flash_unlock, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, fsync,
>>          ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, hd,
>>          hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id,
>>          ifconfig, ifdown, ifenslave, ifplugd, ifup, inetd, init, inotifyd,
>>          insmod, install, ionice, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink,
>>          iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd,
>>          last, length, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadfont,
>>          loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr,
>>          ls, lsattr, lsmod, lzmacat, lzop, lzopcat, makemime, man, md5sum,
>>          mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkdosfs, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mkfs.vfat,
>>          mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint,
>>          mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, od,
>>          openvt, passwd, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress,
>>          pivot_root, pkill, popmaildir, printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pwd,
>>          raidautorun, rdate, rdev, readlink, readprofile, realpath,
>>          reformime, renice, reset, resize, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm,
>>          rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-parts, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script,
>>          scriptreplay, sed, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole, setfont,
>>          setkeycodes, setlogcons, setsid, setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum,
>>          sha512sum, showkey, slattach, sleep, softlimit, sort, split,
>>          start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv,
>>          svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac,
>>          tail, tar, taskset, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, tftpd,
>>          time, timeout, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, ttysize,
>>          udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq,
>>          unix2dos, unlzma, unlzop, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode,
>>          vconfig, vi, vlock, volname, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who,
>>          whoami, xargs, yes, zcat, zcip
>
> But does it run under OpenVMS?
>

Oh, I hope not ...

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