Sorry, Dave, can I use the "before 8:00am post" excuse for my extremely ambiguous post? We don't disagree, I just sent an airball sailing 3 feet wide of the backboard. It was said that "It's not weird if you think of it the UNIX way." I meant that in that sentence only, you could substitute "inconsistent" for "weird": "It's not inconsistent if you think of it the UNIX way." Phil M On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:40:29AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > Well, thinking the UNIX way is a little weird on it's own, but if by > > "weird" we mean "inconsistent," then you're spot on! > > Inconsistent? How so? Being able to add or remove references (meaning, > primarily, hard links and file descriptors) to a file freely and then > releasing the associated disk space when the final reference has been removed > seems like the obvious and reasonable way to handle things to me. And even > if it's not obvious or reasonable to you, it's still consistent. > > Now, if you want inconsistency, try having tar handle a .bz2 archive... Is > it -y, -I, -j, or has it changed again yet? > > -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous