Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:24:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> So as an alternative, I 
> propose that ln.c in filutils be modified so that if the call to make a soft 
> link fails, then try to make a hard link.

Why do it in `ln'?  I would rather think this should be done inside
`symlink' in the library.  Are there any cases that this would be bad?