At 4:39 PM -0400 7/29/02, Anne Judge is rumored to have typed:
I had this problem when I started with Smartlist
It is NOT a "problem." It is a misunderstanding on the part of the user as to how to alter the specific file in question on a list-specific basis. It is operating EXACTLY as designed, and so cannot be a "problem." (Sorry, but it's annoying to hear someone who admits they don't want to bother learning how things work assume there's a problem where none exists, simply BECAUSE of their self-imposed ignorance.)
and I didn't use the unix delinking to fix the problem.
I'm afraid you DID use "unix delinking." (For the record here, there is no unix delink command, there is rather a shell script included with SmartList that, "Gracefully disconnects a hardlinked file." You might want to read it to see what it does...I think you'll be surprised. Feel free to FTP it into your machine and use SimpleText to read it...wouldn't want to learn cat, right?)
I just deleted the subscribe.txt file, then uploaded (via ftp) to each list's directory on the server the new subscribe.txt file I'd composed for that list on my home machine.
Which does, of course, delink the file data from the directory. A "link" is a pointer to an area on the hard drive telling the machine where the requested data resides. If you delete a file, you really don't "delete" anything (that is, you don't remove any of the data within the file), you just destroy the pointer to the hard drive sectors. That _IS_ delinking. The "hard" links that SmartList creates are just seperate pointers to the same place on the hard drive, so the same data has multiuple pointers. Whether you specifically use the .bin/delink command, or delete the file, you ARE delinking the file. You aren't using an "alternate method" at all.
I didn't want to get into learning the whole unix thing - that's what I have a husband to handle
(*sigh*)
plus I don't have to spend time looking up unix commands which I don't use frequently enough to actually memorize.
Again, it isn't a unix command, it's a SmartList tool. And, to be blunt, if you're going to run SmartList, you should have a clue about the underlying operating system. If you seriously don't want to bother wasting time understanding a little bit about the OS and SmartList, might I suggest YahooGroups? Charlie (who wonders if you would, using the Mac, seriously suggest you don't need to learn how to use the mouse...)