Re: Adding paths..?

Subject: Re: Adding paths..?
From: Alan Orth (aorth@mac.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 01:41:48 MDT

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On 8/13/01 10:19 AM, "Charles Eggers" <eggers@fusion.gat.com> wrote:

>> 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
>
>
> Charles Eggers
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> General Atomics
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Hey, Michael. Thanks, man.

That was very helpful.

-- 
Alan Orth
aorth@mac.com
Macintosh überhacker extraordinaire

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