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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,12:41 QUOTE
How do i make a symlink (what is a symlink?)

I need to symlink firefox 0.9.3 and java j2re1.4.2_05 together. (as in making a plugin?)

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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,12:57 QUOTE
open emelfm
navigate rightpanel to the destination folder
navigate leftpanel to the source file
press Symlink button
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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,13:20 QUOTE
A symbolic link (is that what you want?) is a reference to another file, like a shortcut in Windows or an alias on the Mac.  You can create one in the bash shell with the command

ln -s <existing file or directory name> <link name>

the -s makes it a symbolic link, without that it's a hard link (points to the inode).  Those can point across partitions.
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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,15:06 QUOTE
For that, I'd use the bash command..

The symlink button will symlink to the
/ramdisk/opt/.firefox_plugins/* , not the /opt/.firefox_plugins/*

The bash command will do it properly..

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Posted: Sep. 28 2004,15:27 QUOTE
So you would use the ls without the -s if you wanted to have your /home directory on another partition?

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