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Subject: Invisible link?
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Can anyone explain the shell output below?  I am probably missing something obvious, but there seems to be a link from /usr to /lib which is invisible.  What is going on here?


johncc AT WINTERMUTE /usr
$ ls -la
total 312
drwxr-xr-x   17 Administ Administ     4096 Sep 17 11:43 .
drwxrwxrwx   13 Administ None         4096 Sep 17 11:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x   11 Administ Administ     4096 Sep 17 09:14 X11R6
drwxr-xr-x    4 Administ Administ        0 Aug 14 11:15 autotool
drwxr-xr-x    3 Administ Administ   131072 Sep 17 15:57 bin
drwxr-xr-x   54 Administ Administ    12288 Sep 17 15:56 doc
drwxr-xr-x    3 Administ Administ        0 Sep 17 11:25 i686-pc-cygwin
drwxr-xr-x   17 Administ Administ    28672 Sep 17 15:57 include
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ   106496 Sep 17 15:57 info
drwxr-xr-x   13 Administ Administ     4096 Sep 13 10:54 local
drwxr-xr-x   11 Administ Administ     4096 Sep 17 10:43 man
drwxr-xr-x    3 Administ Administ     8192 Sep 18 08:43 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   23 Administ Administ     8192 Sep 17 11:43 share
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ        0 Sep 17 09:24 src
drwxr-xr-x    6 Administ Administ     4096 Sep 17 10:41 ssl
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ        0 Jul 26  2001 tmp
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ        0 Sep 17 11:43 var

johncc AT WINTERMUTE /usr
$ cd lib

johncc AT WINTERMUTE /usr/lib
$ ls
automode.o     libautomode.a   ....etc.

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Blakell Europlacer Limited

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