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- From: mich@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Schuster 8726004 (Dipl Joe))
- Subject: Re: Soft link
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.095113.3689@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
- References: <1k43bfINNctj@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1993Jan28.045239.20867@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:51:13 GMT
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- zheng@cs.sunysb.edu (Xiaohong Zheng) writes:
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- >In article <1k43bfINNctj@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> friedenb@pine.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
- >>
- >>I have a program which requires me to make a
- >>soft link of ~/.plan to /tmp/.plan
- [....]
- > I guess you mean symbolic link, which is special directory entry
- >that points to another file or directory. Just do the following
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- > ln -s ~/.plan /tmp/.plan
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- >If you remove ~/.plan, /tmp/.plan will point to something that does exist.
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- That's not so: if you do as above, you'll get something like:
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- /tmp/.plan: No such file or directory
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- when you try to access/read/write it.
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