Not to defend the M$ drones, but they are talking about a service that actively
seeks out duplicates and automatically creates the links. They took the symlink
idea and automated it. It's what they do best. Automate manual processes, whether
you want them automated or not.
Ed.
Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> This is a article from ms about how they developed the "single
> instance store" also known to the unix world as -- symlinks. It's an
> actual press release.
>
> http://microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
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