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Re: Function to find symlink target


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:40:16 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis wrote:

>>> Symlinks greatly help in that case, and do spare the hard
>>> disk space.
>> 
>> Compared to duplicating all the files physically on the
>> local machine?
>
> Yes, symlinks can be in a different file structure than
> their actual files on the hard disk.
>
> For example [...]

This is the same use case that has been mentioned several
times by now! Maybe that's the only things symlinks are
good for?

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