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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How do you make those -> directories? Date: 13 Nov 92 15:55:57 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 28 Message-ID: <veit.721670157@du9ds3> References: <1du24pINNd03@ub.d.umn.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de In <1du24pINNd03@ub.d.umn.edu> cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris) writes: >Hello > How do you make those '->' directories? The first file attribute is >the letter 'l' (what does that stand for?) and the name is something >like 'stuff -> /here/it/is' I searched the manuals but I only found the >normal directory commands. >Thanks >-- >Chris Busch CBUSCH@ub.d.umn.edu >"I guess Intel invented radioactiveware!" >"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, > be reguarded as a criminal offense." - E. W. Dijkista >"High-level languages should remove burden from the programmer, not > put burden on the person!" Try reading a good book on BSD UNIX. Look in the index for "soft links" and the "ln(1)" command. This might be a better question for comp.unix.questions. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"