wescott@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott) (01/09/87)
Since I'm in the process of digging around in the innards of uux and uucp (Honey Danber version) I thought about implementing a command line option, say "-L" that would work like "-C" and make a copy, but the copy would be a link if feasible. The benefit would be in files that are broadcast to many sites (like news batches). One could do the uux -L of the same file to several sites and not pay the penalty of multiple copies taking up space in /usr/spool. The advantage over the -C option is that the original file could be removed and the space would be freed up when the last transfer took place. Any comments?? -Mike Wescott ncrcae!wescott -- -Mike Wescott ncrcae!wescott
rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (01/09/87)
The 4.3bsd uux already has a -l flag to do a link (if possible) instead of a copy). Please call it -l instead of -L if you can. ---rick