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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How can I print on my parallel printer?
Message-ID: <BuI1qF.H0r@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 13 Sep 92 04:27:51 GMT
References: <colin.716015692@marsh> <BuB0yD.An3@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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In article <BuB0yD.An3@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes:
>You need to make the /dev/lp and /dev/lpt1 nodes.
>
> mknod /dev/lpt1 c 15 64
> ln -s /dev/lpt1 /dev/lp
Coming from a mostly System V world (prior to Vr4) I feel like I must be
missing something here (i.e., I have little experience with symbolic
links). My question is why would one want to use a symbolic link (as
indicated) in the above situation rather than simply a hard link? Is
there some problem with hard links in this situation? Seems to me that
a symbolic link here simply requires an extra inode, some additional
disk space, and slows down access to the /dev/lpt1 device. What am I
missing???
Thanks,
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