Entry (main) method inside a class?

[Stewart Gordon]

Daniel Keep Wrote:

> Manfred Nowak wrote:
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>> XP supports hard links.
> 
> Yeah, but they suck.  You need to download a third-party tool to 
> use them, for starters.  Secondly, almost nothing written for 
> Windows even knows about them, not even *Explorer*, so it's 
> impossible to tell if something is a link or not.  And of course, 
> they can't span drives.

Nor can Unix hard links.  It would conflict somewhat with the way hard links work.

> I'm fairly sure that one version of Windows could only hard-link 
> folders, but not files.  Not sure if that was 2k or XP.
> 
> I once planned on using hard links to make migrating stuff between 
> drives easier.  Obviously I couldn't do that, but what really 
> scared me was when I realised that deleting the link deleted the 
> original as well; I just backed away slowly, avoiding eye contact.
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Strange.  I wonder just how these hard links work.  Does deleting one of them delete the whole lot in one fell swoop, or produce loads of dead links?  Or do they disappear as and when you try to determine their existence?

Stewart.