On Friday 13 Jun 2003 5:32 pm, David E Fox wrote: > Usually, yes. Windows doesn't make a distinction, mostly because it > has no concept of links. A link (in Unix) is another alternate name > for the same file (or inode). Directory entries basically have two > components - a name and an inode. Actually there are other entries > as well, but for simplicity's sake we can ignore them for the time > being. > <snip>
Thanks for the clarification. I'll keep that to refresh my memory. > It seems you are attempting to make a file that points to > itself. In what directory are you trying this? Sometimes you need > the extra 'f' to force (ln -sf) the linking. I've usually learned > to automatically get my fingers to type 'ln -sf' when I want to > link a file. And I think you have the source and destination > reversed - that may be the cause of the confusion. > It seeme that the book that I paid £30 for gave me the wrong instructions! It said ln -s linkname fullpath. Thanks to others on the list I've got it sorted now. > Since you mention icons, is this a kde 'shortcut' When you click > on Graphics, is the intent to bring up the Graphics subdirectory? > If so, an easier thing is to create a new Link to URL by right > clicking on the desktop. Then you can name the file "Graphics" and > make the URL 'file:///graphics" for instance. And if you click you > get a window directory listing from konqueror. > This is what I had done earlier. However, if you do that, the ls from a console, it doesn't appear to be a soft link, which is why I felt I should change it. Anne
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