Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm.bitnet!dblcu From: DBLCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Symbolic linking vs. Hard linking on BSD Message-ID: <926DBLCU@CUNYVM> Date: 14 Dec 87 23:48:10 GMT Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY Lines: 10 DISCLAIMER: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article Can anyone out there please describe for me the difference between symbolic & hard linking in the BSD environment? I was looking at all the BSD documentation I have and could not find anything that describes the difference between the two. It seems that symbolic linking will allow linking across file systems while hard linking does not, but I do not understand the process. Thanks in advance.