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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: link (ln) with *one* name?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 01:30:10 GMT
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In article <5698@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
>Stupid question time (I haven't asked one of these for a while, so
>I'm due.  :-) ]
>
>
>Re: 4.3 "ln".  The manpage says ln(1) can be called with only one name.
>	       What purpose does this serve?   Given that ln(1) is
>	       supposed to create "links", I would think you need a
>	       minimum of *two* filenames, no?  What am I missing
>	       here?

	ln -s /some/other/dir/foo

creates a link called "foo" in the current directory.
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