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Re: Symbolic Links and the AREXX: device

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From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 17:42
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In article <14083@netnews.upenn.edu> ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
}Here's some uses for symbolic links, sorted by obviousness.  If
}you think of a symbolic link as just a way of making a file point
}at another file, you miss the more exciting possibilities of the
}Amiga's device space.
}
}	ln -s file sys:foo
          ...

Assuming that you were referring to the Unix symbolic link command, I believe
that you got *every* one backwards.  The form is:
     ln [-s] <thing that exists> <newname it is to have>

  /Bernie\
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