[plug] Ncurses-devel for Mandrake 10

[Innis Cunningham]

Thanks Shayne for the explanation I will give it a try keeping
you warning in mind.

Cheers
Innis

  Shayne O'Neill writes
>
>
>Aha! These are fun.
>
>Basically a symbolic link is a bit like the shortcuts in windows, but they
>are actually useful.
>
>Basically if you have a file or a directory in /home/rara/thisfile.txt
>you can type in ln /home/rara/thisfile.txt /var/www/thisfile.txt -s and it
>will appear for all practical purposes as if the file is simultaneously in
>both directories but in reality its still only in /home/rara . if you edit
>it in /var/www its also edited in /home/rara, because its the same file,
>just living in 2 or more places.
>
>You can do this with directories too. I use this sometimes if I run out of
>space for a directory in one drive, I'll move it to another drive then
>'symlink' it to where its supposed to be, and it'll appear to most things
>as if its in the old place when infact its on the new drive.
>
>Caveat: Too many symlinks make for a messy system, so use them sparingly.
>
>neato indeed.
>
> >
> > Ok Jim I guess I am about to show my noob status here.
> > What is a symbolic link and how do I make it.
> >
> > Thanks again
> > >
> > >HTH
> > >Jim
> >
> > Cheers
> > Innis
> >
> >
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