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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:19:45 -0800
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From: "Primitive Guy" <efficacy AT my-deja DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, efficacy AT my-deja DOT com, lhall AT rfk DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't see symlink with ls

ooops. 

home $ ln -s C:/dev /dev

created the link in the root file system. No wonder I can't see it with ls.

Should have used:

home $ ln -s C:/dev dev

I'd like to buy a newbie excuse.


>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:55:21 -0500
>To: "Primitive Guy" <efficacy AT my-deja DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
>Subject: Re: Can't see symlink with ls
>
>At 04:38 PM 3/19/2001, Primitive Guy wrote:
>>I can create a symlink with ln -s to create a symbolic link to an existing windows directory.  
>>
>>I can also cd to the link and do an ls.  
>>
>>I can't see the symbolic directory name when I do ls from the directory where I created the link.
>>
>>home $ls
>>home $
>>home $ ln -s C:/dev /dev
>>home $ ls
>>home $
>>home $ cd dev
>>dev  $
>
>
>Send the output of cygcheck ls, cygcheck ln, and cygcheck -s -r -v to the list.
>Also, repeat the same test in some subdirectory and don't use /dev, just to 
>make sure you don't have a conflict somewhere.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
>RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
>118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX




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