Re: Adding paths..?

Subject: Re: Adding paths..?
From: Charles Eggers (eggers@fusion.gat.com)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 11:19:05 MDT

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>Michael-
>Thanks for the hints... I will definitely explore more with that. Correct
>me if I'm wrong, but a symlink is like a MacOS Alias, correct?
>
>How would I go about making a symbolic link?

Yes, it is analogous to a Mac OS alias.

  Try

        % ln -s <original path/file> <sym link name>

..or..

        % ln -s <original path/file> .

..if you want the sym link to have the same name as the file (but
different path)

"ln -s" basically means "link", "symbolic".

Regards -
Chuck

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