On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:20:18 -0500 (CDT) "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: > Well Bill, dictionary.com says we're both wrong: > " <programming> To access the thing to which a pointer points, i.e. to > follow the pointer" Ok, you'll love this.. I was basing my belief on the fact that the cp -d option allows you to copy actual symlinks, rather than the files to which they point. Heh, here is a clip from the cp manpage: -d, --no-dereference Copy symbolic links as symbolic links rather than copying the files that they point to, and preserve hard links between source files in the copies. Lol! -d doesn't mean 'dereference' it means 'no dereference'; silly, silly me. Sigh. -.bill.layer.- -.Hi, how are you? I set you up this flag to not dereference your symlink.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-