[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic linkfunctionality

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Just for kicks, after reading this post, I did `touch foo.lnk' and have
> > a circular reference to foo.lnk.  The directory listing actually shows
> > the filename as foo.lnk.

That's solved now.

> I then said, "Hmm... What'll happen if I `ln -s foo.lnk bar.lnk'?"  So
> I, did just that and the listing show bar -> foo.lnk.  I was hoping to
> see bar.lnk in the listing.  Both `cat bar' and `cat bar.lnk' give the
> contents of foo.lnk.

That's too. I hope that will meet everyone's expectation.

Corinna

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