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From: geoff@wrs.UUCP (Geoff Espin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: symbolic links are a botch
Message-ID: <189@wrs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 21:43:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrs.189
Posted: Sun Jun 21 21:43:26 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 01:08:19 EDT
References: <2629@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <5962@brl-smoke.ARPA> <5985@brl-smoke.ARPA> <679@nu3b2.UUCP>
Reply-To: geoff@wrs.UUCP (Geoff Espin)
Organization: Wind River Systems, Emeryville, CA
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In article <679@nu3b2.UUCP> you write:
>
>I have been reading these articles since I joined USENET [some 1.5 weeks
>ago]  I feel that I am fairly well informed but...
>
>What is a "symbolic" link?
>Is is different from a regular link?
>am I crazy? :-)
>Did I miss something important in my education? 8-)
>
>Someone please respond or mail me an explination.
>			Thanks.
>
>Robert.

Sorry to FLAME you but...

1) You posted to comp.unix.wizards which is supposedly for "advanced"
   questions [1].  You should at least have had the sense that your
   question was of a basic nature, i.e. maybe fit for comp.unix.questions.
   You are "fairly well informed" about what? AIDS? Aren't we all by now?

2) The "man" command can be useful.  It's actually faster than sending
   junk queries over the net -- though the output is rather predictable. :-(
   Presuming that you're not on some relic UNIX system without symbolic
   links, try:  man ln

3) Your spelling is atrocious, especially the following mapped files
   discussion.  Please run your letters through "spell",
   or better still "| head -0" :-)

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[1] Here's to calling the kettle black, but I couldn't mail to nu3b2?

Geoff