Dan Rue writes: > I lost your initial post, but you made symlinks sound like > they were some foundation of the OS. They're not, they're just > a neat trick. Symbolic links are a UNIX feature and are part of the kernel. They are not "just a neat trick". As an example, readlink(2) is a Linux kernel system call. In 2.4 the source is in fs/stat.c. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list