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Old 12th September 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
But I don't understand your comment about using a symlink though. Shouldn't a hardlink be more efficient then a symbolic link?
That would be fine too. Just a link of some sort instead of repeating the same file. vi/nvi/vniew/view all have identical file sizes (281K). It is only about 750K saved to do the linking, but the BSDs are usually efficient in this regard. (This is a pretty stock install.) I understand that the view files require different start-up flags, but that could be a simple script instead of the whole file.

Yes, this is a small nit. These days I don't really care much about file sizes. It is just contrary to the BSD philosophy.
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